Hidden inside percale sit percale and replace, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
percale and replace tie for the highest Scrabble score from percale at 11 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in percale: one comes from rearranging its letters, and percale itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with replace. For points, the strongest plays are percale and replace — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling percale turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereal. For points, the strongest plays are carpel, parcel, and placer — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clear, peace, and place. For points, the strongest plays are caper, clepe, crape, creep, crepe, pacer, peace, place, and recap — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in percale produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, care, clap, crap, leap, peel, and race. For points, the strongest plays are cape, carp, cepe, clap, crap, pace, and perc — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling percale turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, cap, car, ear, era, and lap. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percale. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pa and pe, each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in percale 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.
percale 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 3-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 percale. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
percale is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing percale unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are percale and replace, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from percale 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 percale produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.