Hidden inside politest sit plotties and politest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 234 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
plotties and politest tie for the highest Scrabble score from politest at 10 points. The top 10 of 234 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in politest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and politest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with politest. For points, the strongest plays are plotties and politest — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in politest produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toilets. For points, the strongest plays are piolets, pistole, potties, pottles, spittle, spotlit, and tiptoes — 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 politest turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pilots, polite, spoilt, titles, and toilet. For points, the strongest plays are pilose, pilots, piolet, pistol, pitots, poleis, polies, polite, postie, potsie, pottle, sopite, spoilt, stipel, and tiptoe — 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 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in politest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with piles, pilot, plots, poets, poles, slept, and spelt. For points, the strongest plays are estop, lipos, lopes, pelts, pesto, petit, petti, petto, piles, pilot, piste, pitot, plies, plots, poets, poise, poles, polis, posit, slept, slipe, slipt, slope, speil, spelt, spiel, spile, spilt, spite, split, spoil, stipe, stope, stopt, topes, and topis — 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 politest produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies, lips, list, lose, lost, and lots. For points, the strongest plays are epos, lept, lipe, lipo, lips, lisp, lope, lops, opes, opts, pelt, peso, pest, pets, pies, pile, piso, pits, plie, plot, poet, pois, pole, pols, pose, post, pots, sept, sipe, slip, slop, spit, spot, step, stop, tips, tope, topi, and tops — 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 politest turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lip, lit, lot, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are lip, lop, ope, ops, opt, pes, pet, pie, pis, pit, poi, pol, pos, pot, psi, pst, sip, sop, tip, and top — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in politest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, so, and to. 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 politest and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
politest 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
politest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing politest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are plotties and politest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from politest 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 politest produce 234 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.