pillories 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, 227 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pillories is the highest-scoring word from pillories, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 227 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pillories — and it is pillories itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pillories produces exactly one eight-letter word: liriopes. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pillories produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sillier and spoiler. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including spoiler, liriope and pollers.
Unscrambling pillories turns up 27 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are espoir, lisper, lopers and 14 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pillories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loser, piles and pills. For points, 39 words tie at 7 points, including piles, pills and poles.
Rearranging the letters in pillories produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, lips and lose. For points, 32 words tie at 6 points, including lips, pies and pile.
Unscrambling pillories turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, lie and lip. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including lip, per and pie.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pillories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in pillories 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.
pillories 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 four senses for pillories. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pillories is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pillories unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pillories, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pillories 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 pillories produce 227 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.