207 words come out when you unscramble POTENCES, starting with POTENCES itself: 12 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. PECTENS, PECTOSE and POTENCE are the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from POTENCES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 8 with 7, 15 with 6, 59 with 5, 60 with 4, 48 with 3 and 16 with 2.
8 of 59 5-letter words from POTENCES tie at 9 points; none scores more. NOTES, TEENS and STONE will look familiar.
60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble POTENCES; 7 of them share the top score of 8. POST, OPEN and COST are everyday picks.
The 3-letter words made with POTENCES letters are led by CEP, COP and PEC, 7 points each. NOT, ONE and SEE are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of POTENCES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PO · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
POTENCES 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 POTENCES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| POTENCES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 207) | 172 | 207 | 158 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
35 of the 207 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PECTOSE, PENCES, CTENES, POSNET, COSTE, CTENE, ESTOC, ONCES, PENTS, PONTS, POTES, SNOEP and 23 more. 14 of the 207 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SPECT, ONCET, ECOS, TECS, ECO, POS, PST, SOC, TEC, ESNE, PO, EST and 2 more.
These 5 words take every letter of POTENCES plus a single extra one.