Hidden inside pique sit equip and pique, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 9 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
equip and pique tie for the highest Scrabble score from pique at 16 points. The top 9 of 9 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in pique: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pique itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are equip and pique, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pique produces exactly one four-letter word: quip. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in pique and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
pique 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 three senses for pique. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
pique is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pique unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are equip and pique, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pique 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 pique produce 9 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 1 four-letter word, 2 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.