Unscramble PASTEL to get 173 words. PASTEL itself is a real word: 8 points on a Scrabble board, 10 in Words With Friends. 10 anagrams of PASTEL are on the page, PALEST, PALETS and PELTAS included; each is 8 points. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from PASTEL by length: 11 with 6 letters, 45 with 5, 60 with 4, 43 with 3 and 14 with 2.
33 of 45 5-letter words made with PASTEL letters tie at 7 points; none scores more. LEAST, PLATE and TALES will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words from PASTEL, 35 score 6 points, the group's best. LAST, SALE and EAST are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of PASTEL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with PA · ending in EL · all 6-letter words
What PASTEL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PASTEL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PASTEL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 173) | 147 | 173 | 142 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
26 of the 173 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PELTAS, PLASTE, PELAS, PELTA, PLAST, SPALT, SPEAL, SPEAT, APTS, LEPS, PELA, PELS and 14 more. 5 of the 173 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PST, ATS, EST, TES and TE.
Each word below uses all the letters of PASTEL and one more.