Hidden inside postie sit postie, potsie, and sopite, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
postie, potsie, and sopite tie for the highest Scrabble score from postie at 8 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in postie: two come from rearranging its letters, and postie 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 postie, potsie, and sopite, 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets. For points, the strongest plays are estop, pesto, piste, poets, poise, posit, spite, stipe, stope, 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 postie produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, pies, pits, poet, pose, post, and pots. For points, the strongest plays are epos, opes, opts, peso, pest, pets, pies, piso, pits, poet, pois, pose, post, pots, sept, sipe, 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 postie turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pet, pie, pit, pot, set, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are ope, ops, opt, pes, pet, pie, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postie. 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.
35 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in postie plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in postie 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.
postie is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
postie is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postie unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are postie, potsie, and sopite, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from postie 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 postie produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.