Hidden inside patsies sit pasties, patsies, petsais and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 166 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pasties, patsies, petsais and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from patsies at 9 points. The top 10 of 166 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in patsies: three come from rearranging its letters, and patsies 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 pasties, patsies, petsais, and tapises, 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 patsies turns up 14 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pastes, pastie, pastis, petsai, pietas, pistes, sepias, spaits, spates, spites, stapes, and stipes, 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patsies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pasts, seats, sites, spies, spits, steps, and tapes. For points, the strongest plays are apses, apsis, aspis, paise, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pates, peats, pests, pieta, piste, pitas, sepia, septa, septs, sipes, spaes, spait, spate, spats, spies, spite, spits, steps, stipe, tapes, tapis, and tepas — 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 patsies produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, east, eats, pass, past, peas, and pets. For points, the strongest plays are apes, apse, asps, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, peas, peat, pest, pets, pias, pies, piss, pita, pits, psis, psst, saps, seps, sept, sipe, sips, spae, spas, spat, spit, step, tape, taps, tepa, 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 patsies turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass, ate, eat, its, pea, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, pas, pat, pea, pes, pet, pia, pie, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patsies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, 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.
21 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in patsies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in patsies 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.
patsies 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 patsies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
patsies is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patsies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pasties, patsies, petsais, and tapises, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patsies 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 patsies produce 166 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.