Hidden inside piltem is one standout: limpet, a six-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
PILTEM isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to LIMPET (noun), a type of mollusk, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
limpet is the highest-scoring word from piltem, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling piltem produces exactly one six-letter word: limpet. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in piltem. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impel and tempi, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in piltem produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, melt and mile. For points, the strongest plays are limp and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling piltem turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lie and lip. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in piltem plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in piltem 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 play from these letters is limpet, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from piltem 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 piltem produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.