Hidden inside pasty sit pasty and patsy, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pasty and patsy tie for the highest Scrabble score from pasty at 10 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in pasty: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pasty itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pasty and patsy, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pasty produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with past, pays, spat, stay, and taps. For points, the strongest plays are paty, pays, pyas, spay, and yaps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pasty turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pay, sat, say, spy, and tap. For points, the strongest plays are pay, pya, spy, and yap — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pasty. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 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 pasty 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.
pasty 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in pasty carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for pasty. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pasty is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pasty unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pasty and patsy, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pasty 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 pasty produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.