Hidden inside period sit dopier and period, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dopier and period tie for the highest Scrabble score from period at 9 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in period: one comes from rearranging its letters, and period itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with period. For points, the strongest plays are dopier and period — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in period. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pride. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including pride, doper and pedro.
Rearranging the letters in period produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drip, drop and ride. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including drip, drop and dope.
Unscrambling period turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip and per. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in period. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, and or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
10 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in period plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in period and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
period 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for period. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
period is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing period unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dopier and period, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from period 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 period produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.