Hidden inside path sit path and phat, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
path and phat tie for the highest Scrabble score from path at 9 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in path: one comes from rearranging its letters, and path itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with path. For points, the strongest plays are path and phat — 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 path turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hat and tap. For points, the strongest plays are hap, pah, and pht — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in path. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ah and ha — 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 path and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
path 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 path carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for path. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
path is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing path unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are path and phat, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from path 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 path produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.