Unscramble PATENCY and you have 113 words, PATENCY itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, PACEY leads with 12 points. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants. All 7 tiles of PATENCY in one turn: 64 in Scrabble (14 + 50), 51 in Words With Friends (16 + 35).
Looking for paycent, typecan, cenpaty, centapy, cyntape, pacetyn, penacty, pentacy, pacenty or pantyec? They use the same letters as PATENCY, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from PATENCY by length: 1 with 7 letters, 1 with 6, 11 with 5, 36 with 4, 48 with 3 and 16 with 2.
There is a single one of the 6-letter words in PATENCY: CATNEP, 10 points.
PACY tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble PATENCY at 11 points; next come CANY and CYAN on 9. TYPE, TAPE and CENT will look familiar.
These 6 words have the length of PATENCY, with one letter different:
More 7-letter words: starting with PA · ending in CY · all 7-letter words
What PATENCY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PATENCY, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATENCY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 113) | 94 | 113 | 90 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CATNEP, CANY, CYTE, PANCE, PYAT, PYET, PYNE, TAPEN, YATE, ANCE, NYE, TAY and 7 more, 19 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: PACEY, PACY, TEC and TE, 4 in all.