Hidden inside pedicle sit pedicel and pedicle, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pedicel and pedicle tie for the highest Scrabble score from pedicle at 12 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pedicle: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pedicle 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 pedicel and pedicle, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pedicle turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cleped and pieced, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pedicle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with piece. For points, the strongest plays are clepe and piece — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pedicle produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clip, deep and deli. For points, the strongest plays are cepe, clip, epic, and pice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pedicle turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip and ice. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pedicle plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pedicle 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.
pedicle 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 3-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 pedicle. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pedicle is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pedicle unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pedicel and pedicle, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pedicle 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 pedicle produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.