penultima needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 423 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
penultima is the highest-scoring word from penultima, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 423 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in penultima — and it is penultima itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in penultima. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are platinum and tumpline, 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 penultima produces 15 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impanel, implant, maniple, pinetum, plumate, putamen, and ulpanim, 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 penultima turns up 60 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mental, minute, peanut, and planet. For points, the strongest plays are ampule, impale, impute, limpet, lumpen, lumpia, pileum, pitman, pitmen, plenum, pneuma, and uptime — 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 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in penultima. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, email, leapt, maple, meant, metal, and paint. For points, the strongest plays are ample, ampul, impel, limpa, maple, milpa, plume, and tempi — 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 penultima produces 140 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, aunt, lame, lamp, lane, late, and lean. For points, the strongest plays are lamp, limp, lump, palm, pima, plum, puma, tamp, temp, and tump — 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 penultima turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ape, ate, eat, lap, and let. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, pam, and ump — 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 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in penultima. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, it, me, and um. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mu, pa, pe, pi, um, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in penultima plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in penultima 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.
penultima 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 5-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 penultima. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
penultima is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing penultima unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is penultima, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from penultima 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 penultima produce 423 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 60 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 140 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.