Hidden inside perfectas sit perfectas and praefects, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 477 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perfectas and praefects tie for the highest Scrabble score from perfectas at 16 points. The top 10 of 477 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in perfectas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and perfectas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perfectas and praefects, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perfectas. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perfecta, perfects, praefect and 2 more, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in perfectas produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpets, creates and perfect. For points, the strongest plays are perfect, preface, and prefect — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perfectas turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, caters and create. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including crafts, facers and facete.
There are 144 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perfectas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, cafes and capes. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including cafes, faces and facts.
Rearranging the letters in perfectas produces 139 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, apes and arts. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including cafe, face and fact.
Unscrambling perfectas turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape and are. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perfectas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in perfectas 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.
perfectas 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 2-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 perfectas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
perfectas is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perfectas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are perfectas and praefects, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from perfectas 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 perfectas produce 477 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 144 five-letter words, 139 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.