Hidden inside postman sit postman and tampons, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
postman and tampons tie for the highest Scrabble score from postman at 11 points. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in postman: one comes from rearranging its letters, and postman itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tampons. For points, the strongest plays are postman and tampons — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling postman turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tampon. For points, the strongest plays are potman and tampon — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, pants, stamp, and stomp. For points, the strongest plays are stamp, stomp, and tamps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in postman produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, atom, maps, mops, most, naps, and pans. For points, the strongest plays are amps, maps, mops, pams, poms, samp, spam, and tamp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling postman turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, man, map, mop, nap, not, and pan. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, mop, pam, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mo, om, op, pa, 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 postman 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.
postman 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 postman. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
postman is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postman unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are postman and tampons, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from postman 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 postman produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.