Hidden inside pastille sit palliest and pastille, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 317 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
palliest and pastille tie for the highest Scrabble score from pastille at 10 points. The top 10 of 317 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in pastille: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pastille itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are palliest and pastille, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pastille produces 7 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 aplites, paliest, pallets and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pastille turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plates. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including plates, aplite and espial.
There are 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastille. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, leaps and leapt. For points, 58 words tie at 7 points, including leaps, leapt and piles.
Rearranging the letters in pastille produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, laps and last. For points, 48 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling pastille turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ape and ate. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and lip.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastille. 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.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in pastille plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pastille and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
pastille 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for pastille. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pastille is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pastille unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are palliest and pastille, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pastille 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 pastille produce 317 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.