Hidden inside poises sit poises and posies, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
poises and posies tie for the highest Scrabble score from poises at 8 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in poises: one comes from rearranging its letters, and poises itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are poises and posies, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poses and spies. For points, the strongest plays are pesos, pisos, poise, poses, posse, sipes, and spies — 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 poises produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pies, pose, and sips. For points, the strongest plays are epos, opes, peso, pies, piso, piss, pois, pose, psis, seps, sipe, sips, and sops — 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 poises turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pie and sip. For points, the strongest plays are ope, ops, pes, pie, pis, poi, pos, psi, sip, and sop — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and so. 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.
Swap a single tile in poises and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
poises 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.
Dictionaries record seven senses for poises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
poises is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing poises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are poises and posies, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from poises 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 poises produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.