Hidden inside percents sit percents and precents, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 193 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
percents and precents tie for the highest Scrabble score from percents at 12 points. The top 10 of 193 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in percents: one comes from rearranging its letters, and percents itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with percents. For points, the strongest plays are percents and precents — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in percents produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, percent, present, and respect. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including percent, respect and pectens.
Unscrambling percents turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, creeps and enters. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including creeps, crepes and pecten.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, enter and penes. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including cepes, creep and crepe.
Rearranging the letters in percents produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, nest and nets. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including cepe, ceps and pecs.
Unscrambling percents turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, pee and pen. For points, the strongest plays are cep and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percents. 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.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in percents plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in percents 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.
percents 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 percents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
percents is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing percents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are percents and precents, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from percents 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 percents produce 193 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.