perfunctorily needs no unscrambling at all — the thirteen-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 23 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1264 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perfunctorily is the highest-scoring word from perfunctorily, worth 23 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1264 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one thirteen-letter word uses the letters in perfunctorily — and it is perfunctorily itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 23 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eleven-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perfunctorily. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is perfunctory, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling perfunctorily produces exactly one ten-letter word: pruriently. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perfunctorily turns up 18 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with currently. For points, the strongest play is prenotify — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 53 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perfunctorily. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are copurify and copyleft, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in perfunctorily produces 160 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with century, counter, country, curlier, current, fortune, and picture. For points, the strongest plays are certify, cornify, flouncy, fluency, petrify, putrefy, rectify, and torpefy — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling perfunctorily turns up 245 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plenty, poetry, pointy, police, policy, polite, and prince. For points, the strongest play is purify — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 307 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perfunctorily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicer, often, outer, pilot, point, price, and print. For points, the strongest plays are pricy, pyric, coypu, crepy, crypt, and typic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in perfunctorily produces 297 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, city, clip, clue, coin, cone, and copy. For points, the strongest play is fyce — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling perfunctorily turns up 147 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop, cry, cue, cup, cut, and elf. For points, the strongest plays are fey, fly, foy, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perfunctorily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, it, no, of, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, of, oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
perfunctorily 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 one sense for perfunctorily. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 23 points on a Scrabble board:
perfunctorily is the only thirteen-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perfunctorily unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is perfunctorily, worth 23 points in Scrabble, and no other word from perfunctorily 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 perfunctorily produce 1264 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 thirteen-letter word, 2 eleven-letter words, 1 ten-letter word, 18 nine-letter words, 53 eight-letter words, 160 seven-letter words, 245 six-letter words, 307 five-letter words, 297 four-letter words, 147 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.