pettifogged needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pettifogged is the highest-scoring word from pettifogged, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in pettifogged — and it is pettifogged itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pettifogged produces exactly one eight-letter word: pettifog. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pettifogged 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 epidote and tiptoed, 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 pettifogged turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doggie, fitted, and petted. For points, the strongest plays are figged and fogged — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pettifogged. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defog and fidge, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pettifogged produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, diet, edge, edit, feed, feet, and gift. For points, the strongest plays are defi, deft, feed, feod, fido, and gift — 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 pettifogged turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dip, dog, dot, egg, and ego. For points, the strongest play is fop — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pettifogged. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, id, if, it, of, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
pettifogged 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.
pettifogged is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pettifogged unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pettifogged, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pettifogged 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 pettifogged produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.