Is PESTO a word?
PESTO is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words With Friends, has 5 letters, and can be rearranged into 6 other words, plus 37 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, PESTO is a valid word.
What does pesto mean?
noun: a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil.
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
PESTO: word details
- Length: 5 letters, a medium-length word. It is one of 12,578 5-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 7 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 8 points on the tiles.
- Wordle: five letters, so PESTO works as a Wordle guess or answer.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Anagrams of pesto
Shorter words inside pesto
Words you can make from the letters of pesto.
Solve a whole rack, not just PESTO
PESTO is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does PESTO mean?
PESTO is a noun. It means: a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil.
Is PESTO a valid word?
Yes, PESTO is a valid word. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.