permanent needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 233 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
permanent is the highest-scoring word from permanent, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 233 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in permanent — and it is permanent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in permanent. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is permeant, 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 permanent produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are penname, prename, and tempera, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling permanent turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manner, meaner, neater, parent, and repeat. For points, the strongest plays are ampere, apemen, metepa, penman, penmen, preman, premen, tamper, and temper — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in permanent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, enter, meant, and meter. For points, the strongest plays are remap and tramp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in permanent produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, earn, mate, mean, meat, meet, and name. For points, the strongest plays are perm, pram, ramp, tamp, and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling permanent turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, are, arm, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in permanent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, pa, and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in permanent plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in permanent 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.
permanent 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 three senses for permanent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
permanent is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing permanent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is permanent, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from permanent 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 permanent produce 233 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.