Hidden inside perils sit lisper, perils, and pliers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lisper, perils, and pliers tie for the highest Scrabble score from perils at 8 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in perils: two come from rearranging its letters, and perils itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lisper, perils, and pliers, 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perils. If a familiar word is all you need, start with piles. For points, the strongest plays are peril, peris, piers, piles, plier, plies, pries, prise, ripes, slipe, speil, speir, spiel, spier, spile, and spire — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in perils produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, lips, pies, pile, reps, rips, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are lipe, lips, lisp, peri, pier, pies, pile, plie, reps, ripe, rips, sipe, and slip — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling perils turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, lip, per, pie, rep, rip, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are lip, per, pes, pie, pis, psi, rep, rip, and sip — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perils. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 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 perils and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
perils 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 five senses for perils. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
perils is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perils unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lisper, perils, and pliers, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from perils 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 perils produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.