Hidden inside posties sit posiest, posties, potsies and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
posiest, posties, potsies and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from posties at 9 points. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in posties: three come from rearranging its letters, and posties 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 posiest, posties, potsies, and sopites, 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 posties turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are estops, pestos, pistes, poises, posies, posits, posset, postie, potsie, ptoses, ptosis, sopite, spites, stipes, and stopes, 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, poses, posts, sites, spies, spits, and spots. For points, the strongest plays are estop, pesos, pesto, pests, pisos, piste, poets, poise, poses, posit, posse, posts, septs, sipes, spies, spite, spits, spots, steps, stipe, stope, stops, 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 posties produces 40 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, piss, pits, poet, pois, pose, post, pots, psis, psst, seps, sept, sipe, sips, sops, 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 posties turns up 32 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 posties. 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.
Swap a single tile in posties 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.
posties 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.
posties is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing posties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are posiest, posties, potsies, and sopites, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from posties 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 posties produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.