Hidden inside prats sit parts, prats, sprat and 3 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parts, prats, sprat and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from prats at 7 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 five-letter words hiding in prats: five come from rearranging its letters, and prats itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parts, strap, and traps. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including parts, strap and traps.
Rearranging the letters in prats produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, part and past. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including part, past and raps.
Unscrambling prats turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, rap and rat. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including rap, tap and apt.
Swap a single tile in prats and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
prats is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for prats. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
prats is one of six five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parts, prats, sprat, strap, tarps, and traps, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from prats earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in prats produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.