penultimas 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, 1131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
penultimas is the highest-scoring word from penultimas, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in penultimas — and it is penultimas itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling penultimas turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are penultima, platinums, and tumplines, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in penultimas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manliest, plainest, and simulate. For points, 13 words tie at 12 points, including impanels, implants and lumpiest.
Rearranging the letters in penultimas produces 106 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minutes, panties, peanuts, and planets. For points, 29 words tie at 11 points, including amplest, ampules and emptins.
Unscrambling penultimas turns up 195 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, emails and insult. For points, 22 words tie at 10 points, including maples, sample and simple.
There are 310 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in penultimas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien and amuse. For points, 24 words tie at 9 points, including lamps, lumps and maple.
Rearranging the letters in penultimas produces 307 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, amen and ants. For points, 20 words tie at 8 points, including lamp, lump and maps.
Unscrambling penultimas turns up 141 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ape. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including map, amp and imp.
There are 36 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in penultimas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in penultimas plus one additional letter.
penultimas 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 penultimas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
penultimas is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing penultimas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is penultimas, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from penultimas 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 penultimas produce 1131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 32 eight-letter words, 106 seven-letter words, 195 six-letter words, 310 five-letter words, 307 four-letter words, 141 three-letter words and 36 two-letter words.