Unscramble PENATES to get 183 words. PENATES itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 11 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: NEPETAS and PESANTE. 6 shorter words score 8, among them PESETA, ETAPES and NEPETA. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of PENATES at once for 59 in Scrabble (9 + 50) or 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from PENATES split into 3 with 7 letters, 11 with 6, 44 with 5, 60 with 4, 49 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Among 44 5-letter words you get when you unscramble PENATES, the top score is 7, reached by 27. TEENS, SPENT and PANTS are the familiar ones.
37 of 60 4-letter words from PENATES tie at 6 points; none scores more. EAST, PAST and STEP will look familiar.
Of the 49 3-letter words in PENATES, 17 score 5 points, the group's best. SEE, SET and NET are the ones most people know.
These 6 words have the length of PENATES, with one letter different:
More 7-letter words: starting with PE · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
What PENATES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PENATES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PENATES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 183) | 147 | 183 | 137 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
36 of the 183 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PESANTE, PESANT, PENTS, SPANE, SPEAT, TAPEN, APTS, ENSATE, NEPS, PENE, SPET, STAP and 24 more. 10 of the 183 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: NEPETAS, NEPETA, PST, ESNE, NAES, ATS, EST, SAN, TES and TE.
These 6 words take every letter of PENATES plus a single extra one.