Hidden inside pastils sit pastils and spitals, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pastils and spitals tie for the highest Scrabble score from pastils at 9 points. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pastils: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pastils itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pastils and spitals, 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 pastils turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with splits. For points, the strongest plays are pastil, pastis, plaits, spails, spaits, spital, splats, and splits — 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastils. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasts, lists, pasts, sails, salts, slaps, and slips. For points, the strongest plays are apsis, aspis, lapis, lipas, lisps, pails, palis, pasts, pitas, plait, plats, salps, slaps, slips, slipt, spail, spait, spats, spilt, spits, splat, split, and tapis — 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 pastils produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laps, last, lips, list, pals, pass, and past. For points, the strongest plays are alps, asps, laps, lipa, lips, lisp, pail, pali, pals, pass, past, pats, pial, pias, piss, pita, pits, plat, psis, psst, salp, saps, sips, slap, slip, spas, spat, spit, taps, and tips — 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 pastils turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, its, lap, lip, lit, pal, and pit. For points, the strongest plays are alp, apt, asp, lap, lip, pal, pas, pat, pia, pis, pit, psi, pst, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastils. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa 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.
Swap a single tile in pastils 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.
pastils 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 2-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 pastils. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pastils is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pastils unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pastils and spitals, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pastils 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 pastils produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.