Hidden inside pasting sit pasting and tapings, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pasting and tapings tie for the highest Scrabble score from pasting at 10 points. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pasting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pasting 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 pasting and tapings, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pasting turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants, paints, and taping. For points, the strongest play is taping — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pasting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, pains, paint, pants, saint, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are aping, pangs, pings, and spang — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pasting produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, gain, gaps, nags, naps, pain, and pans. For points, the strongest plays are gaps, gasp, gips, pang, pigs, and ping — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pasting turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, gap, gas, its, nag, nap, and pan. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pasting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, 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 pasting 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.
pasting 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.
pasting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pasting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pasting and tapings, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pasting 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 pasting produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.