posterity needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 386 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
posterity is the highest-scoring word from posterity, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 386 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in posterity — and it is posterity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling posterity produces exactly one eight-letter word: spottier. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in posterity produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pottery and protest. For points, the strongest plays are isotype, pottery, pyrites, stripey, and typiest — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling posterity turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poetry, poster, pretty, priest, sitter, stripe, and stript. For points, the strongest plays are osprey, poetry, pretty, pyrite, spitty, sporty, spotty, stripy, tepoys, typier, and typist — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posterity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with petty, poets, riots, ropes, sport, store, and story. For points, the strongest plays are pesty, petty, piety, poesy, posey, potsy, potty, preys, prosy, pyres, pyros, ropey, sepoy, spiry, tepoy, tipsy, types, typos, and yipes — 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 posterity produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, pies, pits, pity, poet, pose, and post. For points, the strongest plays are pity, posy, prey, pyes, pyre, pyro, ropy, spry, espy, type, typo, yeps, yipe, and yips — 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 posterity turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, per, pet, pie, pit, pot, and pro. For points, the strongest plays are pry, pye, spy, yep, and yip — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posterity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, or, oy, so, to, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 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 posterity and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
posterity 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in posterity carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for posterity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
posterity is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing posterity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is posterity, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from posterity 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 posterity produce 386 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 18 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.