pilferage needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 261 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pilferage is the highest-scoring word from pilferage, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 261 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pilferage — and it is pilferage itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilferage. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is filagree, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pilferage produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fragile. For points, the strongest plays are prefile and prelife — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pilferage turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relief. For points, the strongest play is pilfer — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilferage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, grape, grief, and large. For points, the strongest play is pilaf — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pilferage produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fail, fair and fear. For points, the strongest plays are flap, flip, frap, and pelf — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pilferage turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ape. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilferage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pilferage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pilferage 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.
pilferage 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 one sense for pilferage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
pilferage is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pilferage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pilferage, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pilferage 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 pilferage produce 261 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.