postilion needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 230 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
postilion is the highest-scoring word from postilion, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 230 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in postilion — and it is postilion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postilion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with position. For points, the strongest plays are pinitols and position — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in postilion produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lotions and options. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including options, pinitol and plosion.
Unscrambling postilion turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lotion, option and pilots. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including option, pilots and points.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postilion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lions, pilot and plots. For points, 33 words tie at 7 points, including pilot, plots and point.
Rearranging the letters in postilion produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lion, lips and list. For points, 36 words tie at 6 points, including lips, oops and pins.
Unscrambling postilion turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, lip and lit. For points, 19 words tie at 5 points, including lip, pin and pit.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postilion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in postilion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in postilion 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.
postilion 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for postilion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
postilion is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postilion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is postilion, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from postilion 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 postilion produce 230 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.