Hidden inside pelmet sit pelmet and temple, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pelmet and temple tie for the highest Scrabble score from pelmet at 10 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in pelmet: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pelmet itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with temple. For points, the strongest plays are pelmet and temple — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pelmet produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, melt, peel, and temp. For points, the strongest play is temp — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pelmet turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, met, pee, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are elm, eme, mel, met, pee, and pet — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pelmet. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and pe — each worth 4 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 pelmet and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
pelmet 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 pelmet. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pelmet is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pelmet unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pelmet and temple, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pelmet 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 pelmet produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.