Hidden inside peasants sit anapests and peasants, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anapests and peasants tie for the highest Scrabble score from peasants at 10 points. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in peasants: one comes from rearranging its letters, and peasants itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anapests and peasants, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in peasants produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anapest, aptness, paesans and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling peasants turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pastas and sanest. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including pastas, apneas and aspens.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peasants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, pants and pasta. For points, 35 words tie at 7 points, including pants, pasta and pasts.
Rearranging the letters in peasants produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes and east. For points, 38 words tie at 6 points, including apes, naps and pans.
Unscrambling peasants turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape and ass. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peasants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in peasants plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in peasants and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
peasants 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for peasants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
peasants is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing peasants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anapests and peasants, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from peasants 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 peasants produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.