Hidden inside pentimenti sit impenitent and pentimenti, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impenitent and pentimenti tie for the highest Scrabble score from pentimenti at 14 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in pentimenti: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pentimenti itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impenitent and pentimenti, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pentimenti produces exactly one eight-letter word: penitent. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pentimenti produces exactly one seven-letter word: eminent. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pentimenti turns up 17 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are penmen and pitmen, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentimenti. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tempt. For points, the strongest plays are tempi and tempt — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pentimenti produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet and mine. For points, the strongest plays are impi and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pentimenti turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met and net. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentimenti. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in pentimenti plus one additional letter.
pentimenti is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
pentimenti is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pentimenti unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impenitent and pentimenti, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pentimenti 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 pentimenti produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 17 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.