Hidden inside pastane sit anapest and peasant, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
PASTANE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ANAPEST and PEASANT.
anapest and peasant tie for the highest Scrabble score from pastane at 9 points. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in pastane produces 2 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 anapest and peasant, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pastane turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apneas, paeans, paesan, and patens, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastane. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pants, pasta, spent, and tapes. For points, the strongest plays are apnea, aspen, ataps, napas, napes, neaps, paans, paean, panes, pants, pasta, paste, paten, pates, peans, peats, septa, sneap, spate, spean, spent, tapas, tapes, and tepas — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pastane produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes, east, eats, naps, neat, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are apes, apse, atap, napa, nape, naps, neap, paan, pane, pans, pant, pase, past, pate, pats, pean, peas, peat, pens, pent, pest, pets, sept, snap, spae, span, spat, step, tapa, tape, taps, and tepa — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pastane turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, ate, eat, nap, net, and pan. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, nap, pan, pas, pat, pea, pen, pes, pet, pst, sap, spa, and tap — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastane. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pastane plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pastane and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anapest and peasant, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pastane 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 pastane produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.