Hidden inside pedants sit pantsed, pedants, and pentads, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 193 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pantsed, pedants, and pentads tie for the highest Scrabble score from pedants at 10 points. The top 10 of 193 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in pedants: two come from rearranging its letters, and pedants 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 pantsed, pedants, and pentads, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pedants turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adepts, panted, pasted, pedant, and pentad, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pedants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, pants, spend, spent, stand, taped, and tapes. For points, the strongest plays are adept, naped, paned, pated, pends, spade, spaed, spend, and taped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pedants produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes, date, east, eats, ends, and naps. For points, the strongest plays are aped, daps, deps, pads, peds, pend, and sped — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pedants turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, ape, ate, eat, and end. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pedants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 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 pedants 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.
pedants 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 one sense for pedants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pedants is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pedants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pantsed, pedants, and pentads, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pedants 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 pedants produce 193 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.