pegmatite needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pegmatite is the highest-scoring word from pegmatite, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pegmatite — and it is pegmatite itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pegmatite produces exactly one seven-letter word: teatime. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pegmatite turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is magpie, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pegmatite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with image and tempt. For points, the strongest plays are tempi and tempt — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pegmatite produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with game, gate and item. For points, the strongest plays are gamp and gimp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pegmatite turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and ape. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pegmatite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, it, and me. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in pegmatite plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pegmatite 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.
pegmatite 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 pegmatite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
pegmatite is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pegmatite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pegmatite, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pegmatite 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 pegmatite produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.