percusses needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
percusses is the highest-scoring word from percusses, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in percusses — and it is percusses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in percusses produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with presses and rescues. For points, the strongest plays are percuss, precess, and spruces — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling percusses turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with creeps, curses and purses. For points, the strongest plays are creeps, crepes, and spruce — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percusses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cures, curse and press. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including cepes, creep and crepe.
Rearranging the letters in percusses produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, cups and cure. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including cups, cepe and ceps.
Unscrambling percusses turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cup and pee. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cup, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in percusses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in percusses and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
percusses 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 percusses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
percusses is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing percusses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is percusses, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from percusses 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 percusses produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.