Hidden inside pistoleer sit epistoler and pistoleer, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 528 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
epistoler and pistoleer tie for the highest Scrabble score from pistoleer at 11 points. The top 10 of 528 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in pistoleer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pistoleer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epistoler and pistoleer, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pistoleer. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epistler, peltries, perlites, petioles, poetiser, poetries, poitrels, and reptiles, 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 pistoleer produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with politer and spoiler. For points, the strongest plays are elopers, epistle, leprose, pelites, pelters, perlite, pestier, petiole, petrels, petrols, piolets, pistole, poetise, poitrel, politer, prostie, replies, replots, reposit, reptile, respelt, respite, resplit, riposte, ropiest, spelter, spieler, spoiler, 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 pistoleer turns up 89 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pilots, polite, poster, priest, relies, spoilt, and stripe. For points, the strongest plays are eloper, elopes, espoir, esprit, lepers, lisper, lopers, pelite, pelter, perils, pester, pestle, peters, petrel, petrol, pilose, pilots, piolet, pistol, pliers, poiser, poleis, polers, polies, polite, posier, poster, postie, potsie, preset, presto, priest, proles, prosit, protei, repels, replot, repose, repost, repots, respot, ripest, ripost, sitrep, sloper, sopite, splore, spoilt, sprite, stipel, stoper, stripe, topees, topers, tripes, triple, tripos, and tropes — 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 156 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pistoleer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loser, peels, piles, pilot, plots, poets, and poles. For points, the strongest plays are elope, estop, leper, lipos, loper, lopes, peels, peers, peise, peles, pelts, peres, peril, peris, perse, pesto, peter, piers, piles, pilot, piste, plier, plies, plots, poets, poise, poler, poles, polis, pores, ports, poser, posit, prees, prese, prest, pries, prise, prole, prose, prost, repel, repos, repot, ripes, ropes, sleep, slept, slipe, slipt, slope, speel, speer, speil, speir, spelt, spiel, spier, spile, spilt, spire, spirt, spite, split, spoil, spore, sport, spree, sprit, steep, stipe, stirp, stope, strep, strip, strop, topee, toper, topes, topis, tripe, trips, and trope — 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 pistoleer produces 143 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies, lips, list, lose, lost, and lots. For points, the strongest plays are lept, lipe, lipo, lips, lisp, lope, lops, opes, opts, peel, peer, pees, pele, pelt, pere, peri, pert, peso, pest, pets, pier, pies, pile, piso, pits, plie, plot, poet, pois, pole, pols, pore, port, pose, post, pots, pree, pros, repo, reps, ripe, rips, rope, seep, sept, sipe, slip, slop, spit, spot, step, stop, epos, tips, tope, topi, tops, trip, and trop — 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 pistoleer turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lip, lit, lot, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are lip, lop, ope, ops, opt, pee, per, pes, pet, pie, pis, pit, poi, pol, pos, pot, pro, psi, pst, rep, rip, sip, sop, tip, and top — 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 pistoleer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
9 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pistoleer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pistoleer and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
pistoleer 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 pistoleer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pistoleer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pistoleer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epistoler and pistoleer, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pistoleer 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 pistoleer produce 528 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 89 six-letter words, 156 five-letter words, 143 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.