Hidden inside panels sit panels and planes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
panels and planes tie for the highest Scrabble score from panels at 8 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in panels: one comes from rearranging its letters, and panels itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with planes. For points, the strongest plays are panels and planes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in panels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lanes, leans, leaps, plane, and plans. For points, the strongest plays are aspen, lapse, leaps, napes, neaps, pales, panel, panes, peals, peans, penal, plane, plans, pleas, plena, salep, sepal, sneap, spale, and spean — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in panels produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, lane, laps, lean, leap, naps, and pals. For points, the strongest plays are alps, apes, apse, laps, leap, nape, naps, neap, pale, pals, pane, pans, pase, peal, pean, peas, pens, plan, plea, salp, slap, snap, spae, and span — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling panels turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, lap, nap, pal, pan, pea, and pen. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, asp, lap, nap, pal, pan, pas, pea, pen, pes, sap, and spa — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in panels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in panels 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.
panels 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 ten senses for panels. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
panels is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing panels unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are panels and planes, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from panels 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 panels produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.