Hidden inside percussion sit percussion and supersonic, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 699 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
percussion and supersonic tie for the highest Scrabble score from percussion at 14 points. The top 10 of 699 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in percussion: one comes from rearranging its letters, and percussion itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are percussion and supersonic, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling percussion turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are conspires and incorpses, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percussion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with precious and princess. For points, the strongest plays are conspire, corpuses, crispens, incorpse, pouncers, precious, princess, and specious — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in percussion produces 64 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copiers, corpses, courses, cousins, cruises, persons, and princes. For points, the strongest plays are copiers, corpses, crepons, crispen, croupes, percuss, piceous, pincers, porcine, pouncer, pounces, princes, process, prussic, recoups, spicers, and spruces — 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 percussion turns up 156 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copier, copies, corpse, course, cousin, crises, and cruise. For points, the strongest plays are copens, copers, copier, copies, copses, corpse, corpus, coupes, crepon, cripes, crisps, croupe, croups, cuspis, pincer, piscos, ponces, pounce, precis, prices, prince, recoup, scopes, scrips, spicer, spices, and spruce — 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 184 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percussion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicer, noise, noses, nurse, opens, penis, and porns. For points, the strongest plays are percs, pisco, ponce, price, puces, copen, coper, copes, copse, corps, coupe, coups, cripe, crips, crisp, crops, croup, cusps, epics, scope, scops, scrip, scups, sepic, specs, and spice — 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 percussion produces 163 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nice, nope, nose, once, ones, open, and ours. For points, the strongest plays are pecs, perc, pice, pics, puce, scop, scup, spec, ceps, cope, copi, cops, coup, crip, crop, cups, cusp, and epic — 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 percussion turns up 87 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop, cue, cup, ice, nor, and one. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, cup, pec, and pic — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percussion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, or, so, and up. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in percussion plus one additional letter.
percussion 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for percussion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
percussion is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing percussion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are percussion and supersonic, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from percussion 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 percussion produce 699 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 64 seven-letter words, 156 six-letter words, 184 five-letter words, 163 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.