Hidden inside postage sit gestapo, postage, and potages, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gestapo, postage, and potages tie for the highest Scrabble score from postage at 10 points. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in postage: two come from rearranging its letters, and postage 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 gestapo, postage, and potages, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling postage turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is potage, worth 9 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 postage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, goats, pages, poets, stage, and tapes. For points, the strongest plays are gapes, pages, and peags — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in postage produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, apes, east, eats, egos, gaps, and gate. For points, the strongest plays are gape, gaps, gasp, page, peag, and pegs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling postage turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ape, ate, eat, ego, and gap. For points, the strongest plays are gap and peg — each worth 6 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 postage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, 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 postage 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.
postage 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for postage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
postage is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gestapo, postage, and potages, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from postage 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 postage produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.