pettishly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 245 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pettishly is the highest-scoring word from pettishly, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 245 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pettishly — and it is pettishly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pettishly 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 word is thistly, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pettishly turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with titles. For points, the strongest plays are ethyls, shelty, shitty, stithy, and tythes — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pettishly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with helps, petty, piles, slept, spelt, spilt, and split. For points, the strongest plays are hiply, hypes, phyle, pithy, and sylph — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pettishly produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with help, hips, hits, lets, lies, lips, and list. For points, the strongest plays are hype, hyps, and syph — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pettishly turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hey, hip, his, hit, its, let, and lie. For points, the strongest play is hyp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pettishly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, sh, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in pettishly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pettishly 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.
pettishly 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in pettishly carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for pettishly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
pettishly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pettishly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pettishly, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pettishly 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 pettishly produce 245 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.