Unscramble PORTOLANS and you have 278 words, PORTOLANS itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from PORTOLANS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 8 with 8, 17 with 7, 52 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 20 with 2.
Among 52 6-letter words you get when you unscramble PORTOLANS, the top score is 8, reached by 30. PLANTS, PORTAL and POSTAL are the familiar ones.
Every one of the 60 5-letter words from PORTOLANS scores 7. PARTS, PLANS and SPORT are everyday picks.
All 60 of the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble PORTOLANS score 6 points. POST, PART and PLAN are the ones most people know.
29 of 60 3-letter words from PORTOLANS tie at 5 points; none scores more. NOT, TOP and ART will look familiar.
Trade one tile of PORTOLANS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with PO · ending in NS · all 9-letter words
What PORTOLANS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: PORTOLANS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORTOLANS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 278) | 216 | 276 | 194 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 62 of them: PRONOTAL, PRONAOS, ASPORT, ASTOOP, NAPOOS, PLOATS, PONTAL, POORTS, PORTAS, SANPRO, ASPRO, LATRONS and 50 more. Words With Friends* skips 20 of them: PORTOLANS, PORTOLAN, SANTOOR, APOS, OPAS, ORLONS, POOS, SORTAL, STANOL, TOLARS, APO, OPA and 8 more. Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 2 of them: LARPS and LARP.
With one more tile, the letters of PORTOLANS spell the words below.