Hidden inside psalmist sit palmists and psalmist, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 246 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
palmists and psalmist tie for the highest Scrabble score from psalmist at 12 points. The top 10 of 246 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in psalmist: one comes from rearranging its letters, and psalmist itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are palmists and psalmist, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in psalmist produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is palmist, 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 psalmist turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with splits and stamps. For points, the strongest plays are limpas, milpas, passim, plasms, psalms, and stamps — 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 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in psalmist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lamps, lasts, lists, mails, pasts, sails, and salts. For points, the strongest plays are lamps, limpa, limps, milpa, palms, pimas, plasm, psalm, samps, simps, spams, spasm, stamp, 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 psalmist produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, lamp, laps, last, lips, list, and mail. For points, the strongest plays are amps, lamp, limp, maps, mips, palm, pams, pima, samp, simp, spam, imps, 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 psalmist turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ass, its, lap, lip, lit, and map. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in psalmist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mi, pa, and pi — 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 psalmist and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
psalmist 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 psalmist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
psalmist is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing psalmist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are palmists and psalmist, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from psalmist 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 psalmist produce 246 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.