Hidden inside poist sit posit and topis, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SPTOI, TOISP or STPOI and you get the same 5 letters as POIST: so the words from POIST listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
POIST isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to POSIT and TOPIS.
posit and topis tie for the highest Scrabble score from poist at 7 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poist. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are posit and topis, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in poist produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pits, post and pots. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including pits, post and pots.
Unscrambling poist turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pit and pot. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including pit, pot and sip.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
29 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in poist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in poist and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are posit and topis, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from poist 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 poist produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.