Unscramble PETROUS to get 228 words. PETROUS itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 11 in Words With Friends. PETROUS has 6 anagrams here, POSTURE, POUTERS, PROTEUS, SEPTUOR, SPOUTER and TROUPES, scoring 9 like PETROUS itself. The best shorter words score 8: 22 of them, POSTER, PRESTO and TROUPE included. It has 7 letters, 3 vowels and 4 consonants. PETROUS as a single 7-tile play makes 59 in Scrabble, 9 plus the 50 bonus, and 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 PETROUS split into 7 with 7 letters, 29 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 53 with 3 and 19 with 2.
22 of 29 6-letter words in PETROUS tie at 8 points; none scores more. POSTER, ROUTES and PRESTO will look familiar.
Of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble PETROUS, 43 score 7 points, the group's best. STORE, SUPER and SPORT are the ones most people know.
Among 60 4-letter words from PETROUS, the top score is 6, reached by 41. POST, STEP and PORT are the familiar ones.
23 of 53 3-letter words from PETROUS tie at 5 points; none scores more. OUT, USE and TOP will look familiar.
Trade one tile of PETROUS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with PE · ending in US · all 7-letter words
PETROUS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PETROUS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETROUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 228) | 193 | 228 | 183 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SEPTUOR, OPTERS, SOUPER, STROUP, UPREST, OPTER, PERST, PERTS, POTES, PUERS, PURES, SPUER and 23 more, 35 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: REPOST, URPS, POS, PST, URP, PO, EST, TES, UTE and TE, 10 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of PETROUS plus a single extra one.