Hidden inside pentad sit panted, pedant, and pentad, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
panted, pedant, and pentad tie for the highest Scrabble score from pentad at 9 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in pentad: two come from rearranging its letters, and pentad itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are panted, pedant, and pentad, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentad. If a familiar word is all you need, start with taped. For points, the strongest plays are adept, naped, paned, pated, and taped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pentad produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, neat, tape, and tend. For points, the strongest plays are aped and pend — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pentad turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant, ape, ate, eat, end, and nap. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentad. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, 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 pentad and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
pentad 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 one sense for pentad. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pentad is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pentad unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are panted, pedant, and pentad, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pentad 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 pentad produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.