Hidden inside pentau is one standout: peanut, a six-letter play worth 8 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
PENTAU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PEANUT (noun), the nutlike seed or pod of an annual vine, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
peanut is the highest-scoring word from pentau, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling pentau produces exactly one six-letter word: peanut. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentau. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paten, taupe, and unapt, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pentau produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, neat and tape. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including tape, nape and neap.
Unscrambling pentau turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape and ate. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentau. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, and up. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pentau plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pentau 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is peanut, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pentau 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 pentau produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.