pentimento needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 189 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pentimento is the highest-scoring word from pentimento, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 189 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in pentimento — and it is pentimento itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentimento. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impotent and pointmen, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pentimento produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mention. For points, the strongest plays are epitome and pimento — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pentimento turns up 24 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impone, metope, optime, penmen, pitmen, and potmen, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentimento. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point and tempt. For points, the strongest plays are tempi, tempo, and tempt — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pentimento produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, item, meet, mine, mint, nine, and none. For points, the strongest plays are mope, poem, pome, and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pentimento turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met, mop, net, not, one, and pee. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pentimento. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, me, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, om, op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in pentimento plus one additional letter.
pentimento 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for pentimento. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
pentimento is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pentimento unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pentimento, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pentimento 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 pentimento produce 189 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.