pastor needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pastor is the highest-scoring word from pastor, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in pastor — and it is pastor itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parts, roast and sport. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including parts, sport and strap.
Rearranging the letters in pastor produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, part and past. For points, 28 words tie at 6 points, including part, past and post.
Unscrambling pastor turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, pot and pro. For points, 19 words tie at 5 points, including pot, pro and rap.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
15 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pastor plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pastor and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
pastor is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for pastor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
pastor is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pastor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pastor, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pastor earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in pastor produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 20 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.