Hidden inside performer sit performer and prereform, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
performer and prereform tie for the highest Scrabble score from performer at 16 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in performer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and performer 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 performer and prereform, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling performer produces exactly one eight-letter word: reformer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in performer produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emperor and perform. For points, the strongest plays are perform and preform — 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 performer turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with former and prefer. For points, the strongest plays are formee, former, prefer, and reform — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in performer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with error, freer, and refer. For points, the strongest play is forme — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in performer produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with form, free, from, more, poem, prom, and rope. For points, the strongest plays are feme, form, from, and prof — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling performer turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, for, mop, pee, per, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are fem and fop — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in performer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, of, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in performer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in performer 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.
performer 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 performer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
performer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing performer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are performer and prereform, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from performer 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 performer produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.