Hidden inside pilaster sit pilaster, plaister, and plaiters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 571 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pilaster, plaister, and plaiters tie for the highest Scrabble score from pilaster at 10 points. The top 10 of 571 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in pilaster: two come from rearranging its letters, and pilaster itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pilaster, plaister, and plaiters, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pilaster produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parties, pirates, and saltier. For points, the strongest plays are aplites, paliest, palsier, palters, parties, pastier, persalt, piaster, piastre, pirates, plaiter, plaster, platers, platier, platies, praties, psalter, resplit, stapler, talipes, traipse, and triples — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pilaster turns up 84 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, pirate, plates, praise, priest, and serial. For points, the strongest plays are aplite, aspire, espial, esprit, lapser, lipase, lisper, palest, palets, palier, palter, paries, parles, pastel, paster, pastie, pastil, paters, pearls, perils, petals, petsai, pietas, pirate, plaits, plater, plates, pleats, pliers, praise, prates, pratie, priest, rapist, repast, ripest, septal, sitrep, spiral, spirea, spital, sprite, staple, stipel, stripe, tapers, tapirs, tepals, trapes, tripes, and triple — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 180 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilaster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slept, spare, spelt, spilt, split, stair, and stare. For points, the strongest plays are salep, sepal, sepia, septa, slept, slipe, slipt, spail, spait, spale, spare, spate, spear, speil, speir, spelt, spiel, spier, spile, spilt, spire, spirt, spite, splat, split, sprat, sprit, stipe, stirp, strap, strep, strip, taper, tapes, tapir, tapis, tarps, tepal, tepas, apers, apres, apter, asper, atrip, lapis, lapse, larps, leaps, leapt, lepta, lipas, pails, pairs, paise, paler, pales, palet, palis, pares, paris, parle, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, peals, pearl, pears, peart, peats, pelts, peril, peris, petal, piers, pieta, pilar, pilea, piles, piste, pitas, plait, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, plier, plies, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, pries, prise, rapes, reaps, ripes, traps, tripe, and trips — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pilaster produces 169 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, arts, laps, last, late, and leap. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, laps, larp, leap, lept, lipa, lipe, lips, lisp, pail, pair, pale, pali, pals, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, pear, peas, peat, pelt, peri, pert, pest, pets, pial, pias, pier, pies, pile, pita, pits, plat, plea, plie, prat, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, ripe, rips, salp, sept, sipe, slap, slip, spae, spar, spat, spit, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, tips, trap, and trip — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pilaster turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, asp, lap, lip, pal, par, pas, pat, pea, per, pes, pet, pia, pie, pis, pit, psi, pst, rap, rep, rip, sap, sip, spa, tap, and tip — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilaster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
19 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in pilaster plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pilaster and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
pilaster 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 2-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 pilaster. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pilaster is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pilaster unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pilaster, plaister, and plaiters, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pilaster 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 pilaster produce 571 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 84 six-letter words, 180 five-letter words, 169 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.