Hidden inside panelist sit panelist, pantiles, and plainest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 515 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
panelist, pantiles, and plainest tie for the highest Scrabble score from panelist at 10 points. The top 10 of 515 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in panelist: two come from rearranging its letters, and panelist itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plainest. For points, the strongest plays are panelist, pantiles, and plainest — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in panelist produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with panties and planets. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including panties, planets and alpines.
Unscrambling panelist turns up 73 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, listen and paints. For points, 49 words tie at 8 points, including paints, planes and planet.
There are 149 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in panelist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien and lanes. For points, 85 words tie at 7 points, including leaps, leapt and pains.
Rearranging the letters in panelist produces 158 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes and lane. For points, 69 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling panelist turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape and ate. For points, 28 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and lip.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in panelist. 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.
16 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in panelist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in panelist and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
panelist 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 panelist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
panelist is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing panelist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are panelist, pantiles, and plainest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from panelist 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 panelist produce 515 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 73 six-letter words, 149 five-letter words, 158 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.