Hidden inside pester sit pester, peters, and preset, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pester, peters, and preset tie for the highest Scrabble score from pester at 8 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in pester: two come from rearranging its letters, and pester itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pester, peters, and preset, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pester. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steer and trees. For points, the strongest plays are peers, peres, perse, peter, prees, prese, prest, speer, spree, steep, and strep — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pester produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees, pets, reps, rest, step, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are peer, pees, pere, pert, pest, pets, pree, reps, seep, sept, and step — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pester turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, pet, rep, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are pee, per, pes, pet, pst, and rep — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pester. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
34 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pester plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pester 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.
pester 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 1-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 pester. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
pester is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pester unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pester, peters, and preset, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pester 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 pester produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.