pedestal needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 319 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pedestal is the highest-scoring word from pedestal, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 319 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in pedestal — and it is pedestal itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pedestal produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pleased. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including pleased, elapsed and pestled.
Unscrambling pedestal turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, lasted and leaped. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including leaped, adepts and lapsed.
There are 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pedestal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, deals and dealt. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including speed, taped and adept.
Rearranging the letters in pedestal produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, date and deal. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including deep, pads and peed.
Unscrambling pedestal turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape and ate. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pedestal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in pedestal plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pedestal 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.
pedestal 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 pedestal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pedestal is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pedestal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pedestal, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pedestal 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 pedestal produce 319 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.