Hidden inside pennies sit pennies and pinenes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pennies and pinenes tie for the highest Scrabble score from pennies at 9 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pennies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pennies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pennies. For points, the strongest plays are pennies and pinenes — 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 pennies 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 pennes, pennis, and pinene, 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pennies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nines, penes, penis, and spine. For points, the strongest plays are neeps, peens, peins, peise, penes, penis, penne, penni, pines, snipe, and spine — 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 pennies produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nine, pees, pens, pies, pins, seen, and spin. For points, the strongest plays are neep, nips, peen, pees, pein, pens, pies, pine, pins, seep, sipe, snip, and spin — 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 pennies turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, pen, pie, pin, see, sin, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are nip, pee, pen, pes, pie, pin, pis, psi, and sip — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pennies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — 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 pennies 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.
pennies 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.
pennies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pennies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pennies and pinenes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pennies 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 pennies produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.