perfidy needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PEDRIFY, PEDIFRY or PYFRIED and you get the same 7 letters as PERFIDY: so the words from PERFIDY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
perfidy is the highest-scoring word from perfidy, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in perfidy — and it is perfidy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perfidy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fired, fried, and pride. For points, the strongest plays are deify and edify — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in perfidy produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drip, fire, and ride. For points, the strongest play is defy — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perfidy turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip and dry. For points, the strongest plays are fey and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perfidy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in perfidy and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
perfidy 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in perfidy carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for perfidy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
perfidy is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perfidy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is perfidy, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from perfidy 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 perfidy produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 11 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.