Hidden inside pouties sit piteous and toupies, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble POUSTEI, SOUTPIE or SITEPOU and you get the same 7 letters as POUTIES: so the words from POUTIES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
POUTIES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PITEOUS and TOUPIES.
piteous and toupies tie for the highest Scrabble score from pouties at 9 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in pouties produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are piteous and toupies, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pouties turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pistou, postie, potsie and 2 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pouties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, setup, suite, and upset. For points, 19 words tie at 7 points, including poets, setup and upset.
Rearranging the letters in pouties produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, pies and pits. For points, 32 words tie at 6 points, including pets, pies and pits.
Unscrambling pouties turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, out and pet. For points, 24 words tie at 5 points, including pet, pie and pit.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pouties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and so. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including up, op and pe.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pouties plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pouties 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are piteous and toupies, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pouties 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 pouties produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.