pettifoggery needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 342 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pettifoggery is the highest-scoring word from pettifoggery, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 342 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in pettifoggery — and it is pettifoggery itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pettifoggery produces exactly one eleven-letter word: pettifogger. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pettifoggery. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is prettify, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pettifoggery produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pettier and pottery. For points, the strongest plays are petrify and torpefy — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pettifoggery turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forget, poetry, pretty, and profit. For points, the strongest plays are froggy and tepefy — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pettifoggery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forty, greet, grief, petty, piggy, and tiger. For points, the strongest play is foggy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pettifoggery produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feet, fire, fort, free, frog, gift, and grey. For points, the strongest play is fogy — 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 pettifoggery turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, ego, eye, fee, fit, fog, and for. For points, the strongest plays are fey, foy, fry, and gyp — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pettifoggery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, if, it, of, or, oy, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, of, oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
pettifoggery 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 one sense for pettifoggery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
pettifoggery is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pettifoggery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pettifoggery, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pettifoggery 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 pettifoggery produce 342 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 eleven-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.