Hidden inside pilasters sit pilasters, plaisters, and psaltries, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 794 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pilasters, plaisters, and psaltries tie for the highest Scrabble score from pilasters at 11 points. The top 10 of 794 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in pilasters: two come from rearranging its letters, and pilasters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pilasters, plaisters, and psaltries, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilasters. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are palsiest, pastries, persalts and 11 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pilasters produces 77 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parties, pirates and praises. For points, 57 words tie at 9 points, including parties, pirates and praises.
Unscrambling pilasters turns up 158 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, alerts and alters. For points, 95 words tie at 8 points, including pirate, plates and praise.
There are 238 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, parts and pasts. For points, 124 words tie at 7 points, including pairs, parts and pasts.
Rearranging the letters in pilasters produces 191 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes and arts. For points, 78 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling pilasters turns up 88 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 28 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and lip.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
9 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pilasters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pilasters 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.
pilasters 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for pilasters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pilasters is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pilasters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pilasters, plaisters, and psaltries, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pilasters 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 pilasters produce 794 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 17 eight-letter words, 77 seven-letter words, 158 six-letter words, 238 five-letter words, 191 four-letter words, 88 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.