Hidden inside planets sit planets and platens, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 236 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
planets and platens tie for the highest Scrabble score from planets at 9 points. The top 10 of 236 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in planets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and planets itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with planets. For points, the strongest plays are planets and platens — 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 planets turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with planes, planet, plants, and plates. For points, the strongest plays are palest, palets, panels, pastel, patens, petals, planes, planet, plants, platen, plates, pleats, septal, splent, staple, and tepals — 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 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in planets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lanes, leans, leaps, leapt, least, pants, and plane. For points, the strongest plays are aspen, lapse, leaps, leapt, lepta, napes, neaps, pales, palet, panel, panes, pants, paste, paten, pates, peals, peans, peats, pelts, penal, petal, plane, plans, plant, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, plena, salep, sepal, septa, slept, sneap, spale, spate, spean, spelt, spent, splat, tapes, tepal, and tepas — 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 planets produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes, east, eats, lane, laps, and last. For points, the strongest plays are alps, apes, apse, laps, leap, lept, nape, naps, neap, pale, pals, pane, pans, pant, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, pean, peas, peat, pelt, pens, pent, pest, pets, plan, plat, plea, salp, sept, slap, snap, spae, span, spat, step, tape, taps, and tepa — 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 planets turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, ate, eat, lap, let, and nap. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, asp, lap, nap, pal, pan, pas, pat, pea, pen, pes, pet, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in planets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each 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 planets 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.
planets 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 three senses for planets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
planets is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing planets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are planets and platens, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from planets 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 planets produce 236 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.