panettone needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
panettone is the highest-scoring word from panettone, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in panettone — and it is panettone itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in panettone produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pennate, pentane, and potteen, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling panettone turns up 13 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nepeta, patent, pattee and 7 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in panettone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including etape, netop and paeon.
Rearranging the letters in panettone produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neat, none and nope. For points, 19 words tie at 6 points, including nope, open and poet.
Unscrambling panettone turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape and ate. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in panettone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and no. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in panettone plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in panettone and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
panettone 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.
panettone is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing panettone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is panettone, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from panettone 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 panettone produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.