Hidden inside percent sit percent and precent, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
percent and precent tie for the highest Scrabble score from percent at 11 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in percent: one comes from rearranging its letters, and percent itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with percent. For points, the strongest plays are percent and precent — 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 percent turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center and recent. For points, the strongest plays are pecten and recept — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, the strongest plays are creep, crepe, crept, and pence — 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 percent produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, rent, teen, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are cepe 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 percent turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, pee, pen, per, pet, rep, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are cep 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percent. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in percent 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.
percent 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 percent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
percent is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing percent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are percent and precent, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from percent 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 percent produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.