pestilent 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, 286 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pestilent is the highest-scoring word from pestilent, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 286 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pestilent — and it is pestilent 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 pestilent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitles and plenties. For points, the strongest plays are ineptest, penlites, and plenties — 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 pestilent produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitle. For points, the strongest plays are epistle, leptins, pelites, penlite, pensile, petites, pettles, pintles, plenist, and spittle — 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 pestilent turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listen, settle, silent, and titles. For points, the strongest plays are instep, leptin, pelite, penile, pensil, pestle, petite, pettle, pintle, septet, spinel, spinet, spleen, splent, spline, splint, and stipel — 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 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pestilent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, peels, penes, penis, piles, sleep, and slept. For points, the strongest plays are inept, neeps, peels, peens, peins, peise, peles, pelts, penes, penis, petit, petti, piles, pines, pints, piste, plies, sleep, slept, slipe, slipt, snipe, speel, speil, spelt, spent, spiel, spile, spilt, spine, spite, split, steep, and stipe — 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 pestilent produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lent, lets, lies, line, lips, and list. For points, the strongest plays are lept, lipe, lips, lisp, neep, nips, peel, peen, pees, pein, pele, pelt, pens, pent, pest, pets, pies, pile, pine, pins, pint, pits, plie, seep, sept, sipe, slip, snip, spin, spit, step, and tips — 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 pestilent turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lip, lit, net, and pee. For points, the strongest plays are lip, nip, pee, pen, pes, pet, pie, pin, pis, pit, psi, pst, sip, and tip — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pestilent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in pestilent 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.
pestilent 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for pestilent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pestilent is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pestilent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pestilent, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pestilent 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 pestilent produce 286 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.