Hidden inside pastier sit parties, pastier, piaster and 4 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 293 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parties, pastier, piaster and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from pastier at 9 points. The top 10 of 293 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 seven-letter words hiding in pastier: six come from rearranging its letters, and pastier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parties and pirates. For points, the strongest plays are parties, pastier, piaster, piastre, pirates, praties, and traipse — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pastier turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pirate, praise, priest, and stripe. For points, the strongest plays are aspire, esprit, paries, paster, pastie, paters, petsai, pietas, pirate, praise, prates, pratie, priest, rapist, repast, ripest, sitrep, spirea, sprite, stripe, tapers, tapirs, trapes, and tripes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, parts, raise, rates, spare, stair, and stare. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apter, asper, atrip, pairs, paise, pares, paris, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, peats, peris, piers, pieta, piste, pitas, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, pries, prise, rapes, reaps, ripes, sepia, septa, spait, spare, spate, spear, speir, spier, spire, spirt, spite, sprat, sprit, stipe, stirp, strap, strep, strip, taper, tapes, tapir, tapis, tarps, tepas, traps, tripe, and trips — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pastier produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, arts, ears, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, pair, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, peri, pert, pest, pets, pias, pier, pies, pita, pits, prat, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, ripe, rips, sept, sipe, spae, spar, spat, spit, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, tips, trap, and trip — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pastier turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, par, pas, pat, pea, per, pes, pet, pia, pie, pis, pit, psi, pst, rap, rep, rip, sap, sip, spa, tap, and tip — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
36 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pastier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pastier 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.
pastier 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
pastier is one of seven seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pastier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parties, pastier, piaster, piastre, pirates, praties, and traipse, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pastier 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 pastier produce 293 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.