Hidden inside pistoleers sit epistolers and pistoleers, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 770 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
epistolers and pistoleers tie for the highest Scrabble score from pistoleers at 12 points. The top 10 of 770 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in pistoleers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pistoleers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epistolers and pistoleers, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pistoleers turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epistlers, epistoler, leprosies, pistoleer, poetisers, and politesse, 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 27 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pistoleers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spoilers. For points, the strongest plays are epistler, epistles, peltries, perlites, petioles, pistoles, poetiser, poetises, poetless, poetries, poitrels, portless, prosiest, prosties, reposits, reptiles, respites, resplits, ripostes, spelters, spielers, spoilers, and triposes — 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 pistoleers produces 96 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with politer, posters, priests, spoiler, stories, stripes, and topless. For points, the strongest plays are elopers, epistle, espoirs, esprits, leprose, lispers, pelisse, pelites, pelters, perlite, persist, pesters, pestier, pestles, petiole, petrels, petrols, piolets, pistole, pistols, plessor, poesies, poetess, poetise, poisers, poitrel, politer, posiest, posters, posties, potsies, presets, prestos, priests, prossie, prostie, replies, replots, reposes, reposit, reposts, reptile, respelt, respite, resplit, respots, riposte, riposts, ropiest, sitreps, slopers, sopites, spelter, spieler, splores, spoiler, spriest, sprites, stipels, stirpes, stopers, stripes, tipless, topless, 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 pistoleers turns up 174 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losers, pilots, polite, poster, priest, relies, and resist. For points, the strongest plays are eloper, elopes, eposes, espies, espoir, esprit, estops, lepers, lisper, lopers, peises, pelite, pelter, perils, perses, pester, pestle, pestos, peters, petrel, petrol, pilose, pilots, piolet, pisser, pistes, pistol, pliers, plisse, poiser, poises, poleis, polers, polies, polite, posers, posier, posies, posits, posset, poster, postie, potsie, preset, presto, prests, priest, prises, proles, proses, prosit, protei, ptoses, ptosis, repels, replot, repose, repost, repots, respot, ripest, ripost, sitrep, sleeps, slipes, sloper, slopes, sopite, speels, speers, speils, speirs, speise, spelts, spiels, spiers, spiles, spires, spirts, spites, splits, splore, spoils, spoilt, spores, sports, sprees, sprite, sprits, steeps, stipel, stipes, stirps, stoper, stopes, streps, stripe, strips, strops, 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 203 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pistoleers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with peels, piles, pilot, plots, poets, poles, and poses. For points, the strongest plays are peels, peers, peise, peles, pelts, peres, peril, peris, perse, pesos, pesto, pests, peter, piers, piles, pilot, pisos, piste, plier, plies, plots, poets, poise, poler, poles, polis, pores, ports, poser, poses, posit, posse, posts, prees, prese, press, prest, pries, prise, priss, prole, prose, pross, prost, repel, repos, repot, ripes, ropes, seeps, septs, sipes, sleep, slept, slipe, slips, slipt, slope, slops, speel, speer, speil, speir, spelt, spiel, spier, spies, spile, spilt, spire, spirt, spite, spits, split, spoil, spore, sport, spots, spree, sprit, steep, steps, stipe, stirp, stope, stops, strep, strip, strop, elope, estop, leper, lipos, lisps, loper, lopes, 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 pistoleers produces 166 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets, lies, lips, list, lose, and loss. 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, piss, pits, plie, plot, poet, pois, pole, pols, pore, port, pose, post, pots, pree, pros, psis, psst, repo, reps, ripe, rips, rope, seep, seps, sept, sipe, sips, slip, slop, sops, 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 pistoleers turns up 74 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 pistoleers. 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pistoleers plus one additional letter.
pistoleers 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 pistoleers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pistoleers is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pistoleers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epistolers and pistoleers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pistoleers 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 pistoleers produce 770 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 27 eight-letter words, 96 seven-letter words, 174 six-letter words, 203 five-letter words, 166 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.