Hidden inside postage sit gestapo, postage, and potages, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble GAPESTO, GOASTEP or SPATOGE and you get the same 7 letters as POSTAGE: so the words from POSTAGE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
gestapo, postage, and potages tie for the highest Scrabble score from postage at 10 points. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in postage: two come from rearranging its letters, and postage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gestapo, postage, and potages, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, goats and pages. For points, the strongest plays are gapes, pages, and peags — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in postage produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, apes and east. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including gaps, page and gape.
Unscrambling postage turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ape. For points, the strongest plays are gap and peg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in postage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in postage 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.
postage 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for postage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
postage is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gestapo, postage, and potages, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from postage 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 postage produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.