cep and pec tie for the highest Scrabble score from pec at 7 points. The top 3 of 3 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 three-letter words hiding in pec: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pec itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cep and pec, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling pec produces exactly one two-letter word: pe. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in pec and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
pec 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.
pec is one of two three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pec unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cep and pec, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pec 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 pec produce 3 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 three-letter words and 1 two-letter word.