Hidden inside posits sit posits and ptosis, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
posits and ptosis tie for the highest Scrabble score from posits at 8 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in posits: one comes from rearranging its letters, and posits 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 posits and ptosis, 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 posits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posts, spits, spots, and stops. For points, the strongest plays are pisos, posit, posts, spits, spots, stops, 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 posits produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pits, post, pots, psst, sips, sits, and spit. For points, the strongest plays are opts, piso, piss, pits, pois, post, pots, psis, psst, sips, sops, spit, spot, stop, tips, 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 posits turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pit, pot, sip, sit, tip, and top. For points, the strongest plays are ops, opt, pis, pit, poi, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posits. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in posits 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.
posits 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 four senses for posits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
posits is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing posits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are posits and ptosis, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from posits 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 posits produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.