Hidden inside pastent sit patents and pattens, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 149 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble NAPSTET, TAPNTES or PENSATT and you get the same 7 letters as PASTENT: so the words from PASTENT listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
PASTENT isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PATENTS and PATTENS.
patents and pattens tie for the highest Scrabble score from pastent at 9 points. The top 10 of 149 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in pastent 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 patents and pattens, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pastent turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aptest, patens, patent, and patten, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pants, spent and state. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including pants, spent and tapes.
Rearranging the letters in pastent produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes and east. For points, 28 words tie at 6 points, including apes, naps and pans.
Unscrambling pastent turns up 40 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastent. 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.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pastent plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pastent 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 patents and pattens, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pastent 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 pastent produce 149 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.