Hidden inside pasts sit pasts and spats, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pasts and spats tie for the highest Scrabble score from pasts at 7 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in pasts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pasts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pasts. For points, the strongest plays are pasts and spats — 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 pasts produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pass, past, psst, spat, and taps. For points, the strongest plays are asps, pass, past, pats, psst, saps, spas, spat, and taps — 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 pasts turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, sat, and tap. For points, the strongest plays are apt, asp, pas, pat, pst, sap, spa, and tap — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pasts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest play is pa — 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 pasts and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
pasts 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 six senses for pasts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
pasts is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pasts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pasts and spats, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pasts 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 pasts produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.