persons needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
persons is the highest-scoring word from persons, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in persons — and it is persons itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noses, opens and porns. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including opens, porns and poses.
Rearranging the letters in persons produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nope, nose and ones. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including nope, open and pens.
Unscrambling persons turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, one and pen. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including pen, per and pro.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
10 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in persons plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in persons and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
persons 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 persons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
persons is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing persons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is persons, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from persons 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 persons produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.