Hidden inside pastiem sit impaste and pastime, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 194 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
PASTIEM isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to IMPASTE and PASTIME.
impaste and pastime tie for the highest Scrabble score from pastiem at 11 points. The top 10 of 194 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in pastiem 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 impaste and pastime, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pastiem turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are misate, miseat, pastie and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastiem. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mates and meats. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including stamp, temps and pimas.
Rearranging the letters in pastiem produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, apes and east. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including maps, temp and amps.
Unscrambling pastiem turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ape and ate. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastiem. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
13 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pastiem plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pastiem 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 impaste and pastime, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pastiem 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 pastiem produce 194 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.