peltast needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
peltast is the highest-scoring word from peltast, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in peltast — and it is peltast itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling peltast turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with latest, lattes, and plates. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including plates, aptest and palest.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peltast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with latte, leaps and leapt. For points, 27 words tie at 7 points, including leaps, leapt and plate.
Rearranging the letters in peltast produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, east and eats. For points, 29 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling peltast turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate and eat. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and pal.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peltast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
10 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in peltast plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in peltast 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.
peltast 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.
peltast is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing peltast unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is peltast, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from peltast 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 peltast produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 12 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.