pettiness needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 206 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pettiness is the highest-scoring word from pettiness, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 206 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pettiness — and it is pettiness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pettiness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ineptest and pestiest, 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 pettiness produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with penises and tensest. For points, the strongest plays are insteps, penises, petites, septets, and spinets — each 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 pettiness turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spines. For points, the strongest plays are espies, instep, peises, petite, pistes, septet, snipes, speise, spense, spines, spinet, spites, steeps, and stipes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pettiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, penes, penis, sense, sites, spent, and spies. For points, the strongest plays are inept, neeps, peens, peins, peise, penes, penis, pests, petit, petti, pines, pints, piste, seeps, septs, sipes, snipe, snips, spent, spies, spine, spins, spite, spits, steep, steps, and stipe — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pettiness produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, pees, pens, pets, pies, and pins. For points, the strongest plays are neep, nips, peen, pees, pein, pens, pent, pest, pets, pies, pine, pins, pint, piss, pits, psis, psst, seep, seps, sept, sipe, sips, snip, spin, spit, step, and tips — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pettiness turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, pee, pen, pet, pie, and pin. For points, the strongest plays are nip, pee, pen, pes, pet, pie, pin, pis, pit, psi, pst, sip, and tip — each worth 5 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 pettiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pettiness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pettiness and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
pettiness 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 three senses for pettiness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pettiness is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pettiness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pettiness, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pettiness 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 pettiness produce 206 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.