performance needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 441 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
performance is the highest-scoring word from performance, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 441 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in performance — and it is performance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in performance. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perforce and prefacer, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in performance produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with compare, emperor, perform, and romance. For points, the strongest plays are perform, preface, and preform — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling performance turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with career, corner and farmer. For points, the strongest plays are camper, encamp, and pomace — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in performance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cream, fence and force. For points, the strongest plays are campo and cramp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in performance produces 129 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, mean and more. For points, the strongest plays are camp and comp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling performance turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and arm. For points, the strongest plays are caf, fam, fem, and fop — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in performance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and me. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in performance plus one additional letter.
performance 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 five senses for performance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
performance is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing performance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is performance, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from performance 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 performance produce 441 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 11 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 129 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.