Hidden inside pilote sit piolet and polite, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
PILOTE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PIOLET and POLITE.
piolet and polite tie for the highest Scrabble score from pilote at 8 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling pilote turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with polite. For points, the strongest plays are piolet and polite — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pilote produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pile, plot, poet, and pole. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including pile, plot and poet.
Unscrambling pilote turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lie and lip. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including lip, pet and pie.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilote. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
12 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pilote plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pilote and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are piolet and polite, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pilote 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 pilote produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.