pittances needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 450 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pittances is the highest-scoring word from pittances, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 450 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pittances — and it is pittances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pittances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patients. For points, the strongest play is pittance — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pittances produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with panties and patient. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including aseptic, catnips and incepts.
Unscrambling pittances turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attics, nicest, paints, and panics. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including panics, apices and apneic.
There are 122 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pittances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, capes and cents. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including capes, pacts and panic.
Rearranging the letters in pittances produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and apes. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including pact, cape and caps.
Unscrambling pittances turns up 79 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pittances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pittances plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pittances 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.
pittances 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 pittances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pittances is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pittances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pittances, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pittances 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 pittances produce 450 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 122 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.