pentacles needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 469 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pentacles is the highest-scoring word from pentacles, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 469 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pentacles — and it is pentacles itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentacles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleanest. For points, the strongest plays are capelets and pentacle — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pentacles produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleanse and planets. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including capelet, caplets and enclasp.
Unscrambling pentacles turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, castle and cleans. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including escape, places and aspect.
There are 141 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentacles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cease and cents. For points, 18 words tie at 9 points, including capes, claps and pacts.
Rearranging the letters in pentacles produces 142 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and apes. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including pact, cape and caps.
Unscrambling pentacles turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ape. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentacles. 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pentacles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pentacles and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
pentacles 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 one sense for pentacles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pentacles is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pentacles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pentacles, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pentacles 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 pentacles produce 469 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 141 five-letter words, 142 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.