paltriness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1332 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paltriness is the highest-scoring word from paltriness, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1332 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in paltriness — and it is paltriness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling paltriness turns up 14 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antipress, interlaps, panelists and 9 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 59 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paltriness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plainest. For points, 40 words tie at 10 points, including plainest, interlap and painless.
Rearranging the letters in paltriness produces 184 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listens, nastier and panties. For points, 111 words tie at 9 points, including panties, parents and parties.
Unscrambling paltriness turns up 292 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spines, splits and stains. For points, 149 words tie at 8 points, including spines, splits and straps.
There are 371 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paltriness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert and alien. For points, 167 words tie at 7 points, including pains, paint and pairs.
Rearranging the letters in paltriness produces 271 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and apes. For points, 102 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling paltriness turns up 113 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and ape. For points, 33 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and lip.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paltriness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in paltriness plus one additional letter.
paltriness 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for paltriness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
paltriness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paltriness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is paltriness, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from paltriness 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 paltriness produce 1332 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 14 nine-letter words, 59 eight-letter words, 184 seven-letter words, 292 six-letter words, 371 five-letter words, 271 four-letter words, 113 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.