Hidden inside pastis sit pastis and spaits, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pastis and spaits tie for the highest Scrabble score from pastis at 8 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in pastis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pastis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pastis and spaits, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pasts and spits. For points, the strongest plays are apsis, aspis, pasts, pitas, spait, spats, spits, 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 pastis produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pass, past, pits, psst, sips, sits, and spat. For points, the strongest plays are asps, pass, past, pats, pias, piss, pita, pits, psis, psst, saps, sips, 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 pastis turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, its, pit, sat, sip, sit, and tap. For points, the strongest plays are apt, asp, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pastis. 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 pastis and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
pastis 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 1-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 pastis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
pastis is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pastis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pastis and spaits, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pastis 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 pastis produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.