pilotages needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 595 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pilotages is the highest-scoring word from pilotages, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 595 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pilotages — and it is pilotages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilotages. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are galipots, pilotage, and spoilage, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pilotages produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolate. For points, the strongest plays are epilogs, galipot, gestapo, piglets, postage, and potages — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pilotages turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pilots, plates, polite, and spoilt. For points, the strongest plays are epilog, galops, gospel, piglet, plages, pogies, potage, and spigot — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 145 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilotages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, gates, goals, goats, leaps, leapt, and least. For points, the strongest plays are galop, gapes, glops, pages, peags, and plage — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pilotages produces 204 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also, apes, laps, last, late, and leap. For points, the strongest plays are page, peag, pegs, pigs, gape, gaps, gasp, gips, and glop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pilotages turns up 111 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ape, ate, eat, ego, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilotages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 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 pilotages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pilotages 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.
pilotages 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 two senses for pilotages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pilotages is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pilotages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pilotages, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pilotages 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 pilotages produce 595 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 145 five-letter words, 204 four-letter words, 111 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.