Hidden inside peerless sit peerless and sleepers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
peerless and sleepers tie for the highest Scrabble score from peerless at 10 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in peerless: one comes from rearranging its letters, and peerless itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are peerless and sleepers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in peerless produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are peelers, peeress, and sleeper, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling peerless turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sleeps. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including sleeps, lepers and peeler.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peerless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with peels, press, and sleep. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including peels, press and sleep.
Rearranging the letters in peerless produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, less and peel. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including peel, pees and reps.
Unscrambling peerless turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, rep, and see. For points, the strongest plays are pee, per, pes, and rep — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peerless. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in peerless and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
peerless 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 peerless. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
peerless is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing peerless unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are peerless and sleepers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from peerless 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 peerless produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.