pedestals needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 420 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pedestals is the highest-scoring word from pedestals, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 420 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pedestals — and it is pedestals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pedestals. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pedestal and stapedes, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pedestals produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pleased. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including pleased, elapsed and pesades.
Unscrambling pedestals turns up 79 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, lasted and leaped. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including leaped, passed and speeds.
There are 118 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pedestals. 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 pedestals produces 116 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, lads and laps. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including pads, peed and deep.
Unscrambling pedestals turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape and ass. 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 pedestals. 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.
Swap a single tile in pedestals and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
pedestals 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 pedestals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pedestals is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pedestals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pedestals, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pedestals 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 pedestals produce 420 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 79 six-letter words, 118 five-letter words, 116 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.