Hidden inside performs sit performs and preforms, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 139 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
performs and preforms tie for the highest Scrabble score from performs at 15 points. The top 10 of 139 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in performs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and performs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with performs. For points, the strongest plays are performs and preforms — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in performs produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 performs turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with former. For points, the strongest plays are former, formes, 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in performs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forms, poems, proms, ropes, sorer, and sperm. For points, the strongest plays are forme, forms, and profs — each 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 performs produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with form, from, mops, more, poem, pose, and prom. For points, the strongest plays are fems, fops, 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 performs turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with for, mop, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in performs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, of, or, and so. 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.
Swap a single tile in performs and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
performs 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 four senses for performs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
performs is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing performs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are performs and preforms, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from performs 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 performs produce 139 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.