Hidden inside pestery is one standout: retypes, a seven-letter play worth 12 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PREETSY, TYPERSE or ESTYPER and you get the same 7 letters as PESTERY: so the words from PESTERY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
PESTERY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to RETYPES (verb, form of retype), to type again, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
retypes is the highest-scoring word from pestery, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling pestery produces exactly one seven-letter word: retypes. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pestery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steer, trees, and types. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including types, peery and pesty.
Rearranging the letters in pestery produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eyes, pees and pets. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including type, espy and prey.
Unscrambling pestery turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eye, pee and per. For points, the strongest plays are pry, pye, spy, and yep — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pestery. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pestery plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pestery and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retypes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pestery 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 pestery produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.