pittance needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pittance is the highest-scoring word from pittance, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in pittance — and it is pittance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pittance produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patient. For points, the strongest play is picante — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pittance turns up 16 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apneic, catnip, incept and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pittance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, paint, and panic. For points, the strongest plays are epact, panic, and pecan — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pittance produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, cent and epic. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including cape, epic and pact.
Unscrambling pittance turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ape. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cep and pac.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pittance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in pittance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pittance 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.
pittance 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 3-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 pittance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pittance is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pittance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pittance, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pittance 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 pittance produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.