pettifogger needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 240 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pettifogger is the highest-scoring word from pettifogger, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 240 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in pettifogger — and it is pettifogger itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pettifogger 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 pettifogger produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pettier. For points, the strongest plays are firepot, foggier, and piefort — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pettifogger turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forget and profit. For points, the strongest plays are fogger and profit — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pettifogger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greet, grief, and tiger. For points, the strongest plays are fogie, forge, gofer, grief, and grift — 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 pettifogger produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feet, fire, fort, free, frog, gift, and grip. For points, the strongest play is prof — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pettifogger turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, ego, fee, fit, fog, for, and gee. 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pettifogger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, if, it, of, or, 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.
2 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in pettifogger plus one additional letter.
pettifogger 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 two senses for pettifogger. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
pettifogger is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pettifogger unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pettifogger, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pettifogger 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 pettifogger produce 240 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.