pellitory 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, 231 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pellitory is the highest-scoring word from pellitory, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 231 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pellitory — and it is pellitory itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pellitory produces exactly one eight-letter word: politely. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pellitory produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with politer. For points, the strongest plays are pillory and protyle — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pellitory turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poetry, polite, and triple. For points, the strongest plays are peltry, pertly, peyotl, poetry, polity, portly, protyl, pylori, pyrite, ripely, ropily, triply, and typier — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pellitory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pilot and troll. For points, the strongest plays are piety, ploye, plyer, reply, ropey, and tepoy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pellitory produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pile, pill, pity, plot, poet, pole, and rely. For points, the strongest plays are pily, pity, ploy, poly, prey, pyre, pyro, ropy, type, typo, yelp, and yipe — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pellitory turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, let, lie, lip, lit, lot, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are ply, pry, pye, yep, and yip — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pellitory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it, or, oy, to, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 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 pellitory 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.
pellitory 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 two senses for pellitory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
pellitory is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pellitory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pellitory, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pellitory 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 pellitory produce 231 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.