Hidden inside pastean 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.
PASTEAN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ANAPEST and PEASANT.
anapest and peasant tie for the highest Scrabble score from pastean at 9 points. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in pastean 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 pastean 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 pastean. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pants, pasta, spent, and tapes. For points, 24 words tie at 7 points, including pants, pasta and spent.
Rearranging the letters in pastean produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes and east. For points, 32 words tie at 6 points, including apes, naps and pans.
Unscrambling pastean turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape and ate. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastean. 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 pastean plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pastean 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 pastean 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 pastean 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.