Hidden inside pastime 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.
Unscramble MISTEPA, PEATISM or PIESTAM and you get the same 7 letters as PASTIME: so the words from PASTIME listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
impaste and pastime tie for the highest Scrabble score from pastime at 11 points. The top 10 of 194 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pastime: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pastime 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 impaste and pastime, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pastime 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 pastime. 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 pastime 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 pastime 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 pastime. 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 pastime plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pastime 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.
pastime 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 pastime. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pastime is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pastime unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impaste and pastime, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pastime 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 pastime 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.