Hidden inside pericarps sit pericarps and scrappier, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 332 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pericarps and scrappier tie for the highest Scrabble score from pericarps at 15 points. The top 10 of 332 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in pericarps: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pericarps 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 pericarps and scrappier, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pericarps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crappier. For points, 6 words tie at 14 points, including crappier, crappers and crappies.
Rearranging the letters in pericarps produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carries, repairs, and scarier. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including cappers, crapper and crappie.
Unscrambling pericarps turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with papers, praise and prices. For points, the strongest plays are capper and precip — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 93 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pericarps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cares and craps. For points, 33 words tie at 9 points, including capes, craps and paper.
Rearranging the letters in pericarps produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes and cape. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including cape, caps and crap.
Unscrambling pericarps turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including cap, app and cep.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pericarps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in pericarps 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.
pericarps 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 3-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 pericarps. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
pericarps is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pericarps unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pericarps and scrappier, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pericarps 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 pericarps produce 332 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 93 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.