petasus needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
petasus is the highest-scoring word from petasus, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in petasus — and it is petasus itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling petasus turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pauses, setups, and upsets. For points, the strongest plays are pastes, pauses, setups, spates, stapes, stupas, stupes, taupes, upases, and upsets — 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 petasus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pasts, pause, seats, setup, steps, tapes, and upset. For points, the strongest plays are apses, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pates, pause, peats, pests, puses, septa, septs, setup, spaes, spate, spats, spues, sputa, steps, stupa, stupe, supes, tapes, taupe, tepas, and upset — 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 petasus produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, east, eats, pass, past, peas, and pets. For points, the strongest plays are apes, apse, asps, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, peas, peat, pest, pets, psst, puss, puts, saps, seps, sept, spae, spas, spat, spue, step, supe, sups, tape, taps, tepa, tups, and upas — 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 petasus turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass, ate, eat, pea, pet, and put. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, pas, pat, pea, pes, pet, pst, pus, put, sap, spa, sup, tap, tup, and ups — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in petasus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — 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 petasus 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.
petasus 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
petasus is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing petasus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is petasus, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from petasus 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 petasus produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 11 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.