Hidden inside percales sit percales and replaces, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 314 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
percales and replaces tie for the highest Scrabble score from percales at 12 points. The top 10 of 314 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in percales: one comes from rearranging its letters, and percales itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with replaces. For points, the strongest plays are percales and replaces — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in percales produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereals and replace. For points, the strongest plays are caprese, carpels, clasper, escaper, parcels, percale, placers, reclasp, replace, respace, and scalper — 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 percales turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, cereal, clears, creeps, escape, places, and please. For points, the strongest plays are capers, carpel, clepes, crapes, creeps, crepes, escape, escarp, pacers, parcel, parsec, peaces, placer, places, recaps, scrape, secpar, and spacer — 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 95 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percales. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cares, cease, claps, clear, craps, and erase. For points, the strongest plays are caper, capes, carps, cepes, claps, clasp, clepe, crape, craps, creep, crepe, pacer, paces, peace, percs, place, recap, scalp, scape, scarp, scrap, and space — 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 percales produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cape, caps, care, cars, case, and clap. For points, the strongest plays are cape, caps, carp, cepe, ceps, clap, crap, pace, pacs, pecs, perc, and spec — 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 percales turns up 52 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percales. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays 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 percales 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.
percales 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 percales. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
percales is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing percales unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are percales and replaces, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from percales 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 percales produce 314 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 95 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.