pesterers needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pesterers is the highest-scoring word from pesterers, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pesterers — and it is pesterers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pesterers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pesterer, presters, and steepers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pesterers produces 10 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 peeress, pesters, presets, presser, prester, repress, and steeper, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pesterers turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steers. For points, the strongest plays are perses, perter, pester, peters, preset, prests, speers, sprees, steeps, streps, and tepees — 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 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pesterers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press, rests, steer, steps, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are epees, peers, peres, perse, pests, peter, prees, prese, press, prest, seeps, septs, speer, spree, steep, steps, strep, and tepee — 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 pesterers produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees, pets, psst, reps, rest, sees, and sets. For points, the strongest plays are epee, peer, pees, pere, pert, pest, pets, pree, psst, reps, seep, seps, 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 pesterers turns up 19 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 pesterers. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pesterers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pesterers 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.
pesterers 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 pesterers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pesterers is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pesterers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pesterers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pesterers 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 pesterers produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.