Hidden inside permafrost sit permafrost and preformats, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 726 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
permafrost and preformats tie for the highest Scrabble score from permafrost at 17 points. The top 10 of 726 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in permafrost: one comes from rearranging its letters, and permafrost itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are permafrost and preformats, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling permafrost turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is preformat, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in permafrost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with performs. For points, the strongest plays are performs, pomfrets, 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 permafrost produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with farmers, maestro, perform, reports, and smarter. For points, the strongest plays are perform, pomfret, 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 permafrost turns up 106 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, farmer, faster, forest, former, frames, and master. For points, the strongest plays are farmer, femora, foamer, forams, format, former, formes, framer, frames, 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 195 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in permafrost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, atoms, farms, fates, fatso, fears, and foams. For points, the strongest plays are fames, farms, foams, foram, forme, forms, frame, fraps, 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 permafrost produces 220 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arms, arts, atom, maps, mate, and meat. For points, the strongest plays are prof, fame, fams, farm, fems, foam, fops, form, frap, and from — 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 permafrost turns up 112 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, arm, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are fam, 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 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in permafrost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, me, of, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in permafrost plus one additional letter.
permafrost 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 permafrost. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
permafrost is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing permafrost unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are permafrost and preformats, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from permafrost 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 permafrost produce 726 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 106 six-letter words, 195 five-letter words, 220 four-letter words, 112 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.