passant needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
passant is the highest-scoring word from passant, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in passant — and it is passant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling passant produces exactly one six-letter word: pastas. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in passant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pants, pasta, pasts, and snaps. For points, the strongest plays are ataps, napas, paans, pants, pasta, pasts, snaps, spans, spats, and tapas — 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 passant produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, naps, pans, pass, past, psst, and snap. For points, the strongest plays are asps, atap, napa, naps, paan, pans, pant, pass, past, pats, psst, saps, snap, span, spas, spat, tapa, and taps — 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 passant turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass, nap, pan, sat, tan, and tap. For points, the strongest plays are apt, asp, nap, pan, pas, pat, pst, sap, spa, and tap — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in passant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest play is pa — worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in passant and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
passant 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 passant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
passant is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing passant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is passant, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from passant 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 passant produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 12 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.