Hidden inside posthaste sit posthaste and postheats, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 364 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
posthaste and postheats tie for the highest Scrabble score from posthaste at 14 points. The top 10 of 364 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in posthaste: one comes from rearranging its letters, and posthaste itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are posthaste and postheats, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posthaste. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pathoses, postheat, potashes, spathose, and teashops, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in posthaste produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are poshest, spathes, and teashop, 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 posthaste turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phases, shapes, states, tastes, and toasts. For points, the strongest plays are pashes, pathos, phases, potash, shapes, spathe, staphs, thesps, and tophes — 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 97 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posthaste. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, hates, heats, hopes, hoses, hosts, and oaths. For points, the strongest plays are ephas, hasps, heaps, hopes, opahs, paths, phase, pheos, phots, shape, shops, sophs, staph, thesp, tophe, and tophs — 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 posthaste produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, oath, pass, past, path, peas, and pets. For points, the strongest plays are opah, pash, path, pehs, phat, pheo, phos, phot, posh, shop, soph, epha, haps, hasp, heap, heps, hope, hops, and toph — 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 posthaste turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ash, ass, ate, eat, has, and hat. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, hop, pah, peh, pho, pht, and poh — 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 posthaste. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and ho. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in posthaste plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in posthaste 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.
posthaste 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 posthaste carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
posthaste is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing posthaste unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are posthaste and postheats, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from posthaste 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 posthaste produce 364 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 97 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.