Unscramble PORTESSES to get 259 words. PORTESSES itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 12 in Words With Friends. ESPRESSO and PORTESSE are the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from PORTESSES split into 1 with 9 letters, 4 with 8, 20 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 39 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Of the 20 7-letter words in PORTESSES, 16 score 9 points, the group's best. POSTERS, PRESSES and STEREOS are the ones most people know.
60 6-letter words from PORTESSES; 39 of them share the top score of 8. SPORTS, STORES and POSTER are everyday picks.
Among 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble PORTESSES, the top score is 7, reached by 50. POSTS, PRESS and SPORT are the familiar ones.
35 of 60 4-letter words in PORTESSES tie at 6 points; none scores more. POST, STEP and PORT will look familiar.
Keep every letter of PORTESSES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with PO · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by ESPRESSO (10 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
PORTESSES is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORTESSES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 259) | 219 | 259 | 203 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
40 of the 259 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PORTESSES, PORTESSE, PORTESS, POSSERS, SPEOSES, SPERSES, OPTERS, OSSETERS, PETRES, POSSER, PRESES, SPERSE and 28 more. 16 of the 259 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: REPOSTS, REPOST, TSORESES, PERES, PERE, SEPS, SORTES, POS, PST, RESES, ESSE, ESTS and 4 more.
With one more tile, the letters of PORTESSES spell the words below.