pennants needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pennants is the highest-scoring word from pennants, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in pennants — and it is pennants itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pennants produces exactly one seven-letter word: pennant. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pennants turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pannes and patens, 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pennants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pants, spent, and tapes. For points, the strongest plays are aspen, napes, neaps, panes, panne, pants, paste, paten, pates, peans, peats, penna, septa, sneap, spate, spean, spent, tapes, and tepas — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pennants produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes, east, eats, naps, neat, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are apes, apse, nape, naps, neap, pane, pans, pant, pase, past, pate, pats, pean, peas, peat, pens, pent, pest, pets, sept, snap, spae, span, spat, step, tape, taps, and tepa — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pennants turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, ate, eat, nap, net, and pan. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, nap, pan, pas, pat, pea, pen, pes, pet, pst, sap, spa, and tap — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pennants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa 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 pennants and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
pennants 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for pennants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pennants is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pennants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pennants, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pennants 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 pennants produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.