pentagram needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 309 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pentagram is the highest-scoring word from pentagram, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 309 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pentagram — and it is pentagram itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pentagram produces exactly one eight-letter word: parament. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pentagram produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manager and pageant. For points, the strongest plays are pangram and rampage — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pentagram turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with magnet, manage, and parent. For points, the strongest play is grampa — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentagram. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and apart. For points, the strongest play is gramp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pentagram produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, area and earn. For points, the strongest play is gamp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pentagram turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ape. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentagram. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, and me. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pentagram plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pentagram 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.
pentagram 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 pentagram. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
pentagram is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pentagram unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pentagram, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pentagram 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 pentagram produce 309 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 19 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.