Hidden inside pedals sit lapsed, padles, pedals and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lapsed, padles, pedals and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from pedals at 9 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in pedals: three come from rearranging its letters, and pedals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lapsed, padles, pedals, and pleads, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pedals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deals, leads, and leaps. For points, the strongest plays are padle, paled, pedal, plead, spade, and spaed — 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 pedals produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, deal, lads, laps, lead, leap, and pads. For points, the strongest plays are aped, daps, deps, pads, peds, pled, and sped — 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 pedals turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, lad, lap, led, pad, and pal. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pedals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — 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 pedals and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
pedals 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 five senses for pedals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pedals is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pedals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lapsed, padles, pedals, and pleads, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pedals 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 pedals produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.