podesta needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 214 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
podesta is the highest-scoring word from podesta, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 214 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in podesta — and it is podesta itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling podesta turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopts and posted. For points, the strongest plays are adepts, adopts, depots, despot, dopest, pasted, posted, soaped, and stoped — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in podesta. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopt, dates, poets, posed, taped, tapes, and toads. For points, the strongest plays are adept, adopt, apods, depot, dopas, dopes, opted, pated, posed, spade, spado, spaed, spode, taped, and toped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in podesta produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, date, does, dots, east, eats, and pads. For points, the strongest plays are aped, apod, daps, deps, dopa, dope, oped, pads, peds, pods, and sped — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling podesta turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, ate, dot, eat, pad, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in podesta. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, do, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, 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.
Swap a single tile in podesta 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.
podesta 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
podesta is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing podesta unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is podesta, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from podesta 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 podesta produce 214 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.