Hidden inside pastimes sit impastes and pastimes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 289 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impastes and pastimes tie for the highest Scrabble score from pastimes at 12 points. The top 10 of 289 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in pastimes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pastimes 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 impastes and pastimes, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pastimes produces 13 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 impasse, impaste, misstep, and pastime, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pastimes turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stamps and steams. For points, the strongest plays are passim and stamps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastimes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mates and meats. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including stamp, temps and pimas.
Rearranging the letters in pastimes produces 94 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 pastimes turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ape and ass. 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 pastimes. 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.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in pastimes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pastimes 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.
pastimes 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 pastimes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pastimes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pastimes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impastes and pastimes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pastimes 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 pastimes produce 289 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.