pedantry needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 244 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pedantry is the highest-scoring word from pedantry, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 244 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in pedantry — and it is pedantry itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pedantry produces exactly one seven-letter word: dentary. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pedantry turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parent and prayed. For points, the strongest plays are drapey and prayed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pedantry. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entry, party, ready, taped, trade, and typed. For points, the strongest plays are pandy, pardy, payed, perdy, and typed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pedantry produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, dear, deny, earn, near, and neat. For points, the strongest plays are paty, pray, prey, pyre, and type — 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 pedantry turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant, any, ape, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are pay, pry, pya, pye, yap, and yep — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pedantry. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — 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 pedantry 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.
pedantry 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 pedantry. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
pedantry is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pedantry unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pedantry, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pedantry 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 pedantry produce 244 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 23 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.