Unscramble POLTROONS and you have 182 words, POLTROONS itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is POLTROON, 10 points. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from POLTROONS split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 2 with 7, 13 with 6, 58 with 5, 60 with 4, 36 with 3 and 11 with 2.
POLTROON is the only one of the 8-letter words made with POLTROONS letters; it scores 10 points.
31 of 58 5-letter words you get when you unscramble POLTROONS tie at 7 points; none scores more. TOOLS, SPORT and PORTS will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words made with POLTROONS letters, 30 score 6 points, the group's best. POST, PORT and STOP are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of POLTROONS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with PO · ending in NS · all 9-letter words
What POLTROONS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
POLTROONS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLTROONS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 182) | 136 | 182 | 122 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
46 of the 182 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: POORTS, POTOOS, NOOPS, POLTS, PONTS, POORT, POOTS, POTOO, PROTO, ROOPS, ROTOLOS, SPOOT and 34 more. 14 of the 182 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ORLONS, POOS, TOPO, ORLON, POO, POS, PST, LOTO, ONOS, PO, ROOS, LOR and 2 more.
With one more tile, the letters of POLTROONS spell the words below.