percussing needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 483 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
percussing is the highest-scoring word from percussing, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 483 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in percussing — and it is percussing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percussing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pressing, princess, and rescuing. For points, the strongest play is sprucing — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in percussing produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cruises, cursing and princes. For points, the strongest play is creping — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling percussing turns up 94 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crises, cruise and curing. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including prices, prince and spices.
There are 124 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percussing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, cures and curse. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including price, spice and cripe.
Rearranging the letters in percussing produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nice, pens and pies. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including cups, epic and pecs.
Unscrambling percussing turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cup and gun. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cup, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percussing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pe, pi, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
percussing 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
percussing is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing percussing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is percussing, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from percussing 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 percussing produce 483 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 10 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 94 six-letter words, 124 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.