Hidden inside penalty sit aplenty and penalty, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aplenty and penalty tie for the highest Scrabble score from penalty at 12 points. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in penalty: one comes from rearranging its letters, and penalty itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with penalty. For points, the strongest plays are aplenty and penalty — 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 penalty turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with planet and plenty. For points, the strongest plays are pentyl and plenty — 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in penalty. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leapt, plane, plant, and plate. For points, the strongest plays are aptly, panty, patly, peaty, platy, and typal — 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 penalty produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lane, late, lean, leap, lent, neat, and plan. For points, the strongest plays are paly, paty, play, type, and yelp — 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 penalty turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any, ape, ate, aye, eat, and lap. For points, the strongest plays are pay, ply, pya, pye, yap, and yep — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in penalty. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — 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 penalty 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.
penalty 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 four senses for penalty. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
penalty is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing penalty unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aplenty and penalty, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from penalty 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 penalty produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.