permeate needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
permeate is the highest-scoring word from permeate, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in permeate — and it is permeate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in permeate produces 2 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 premeet 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 permeate turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeat. For points, the strongest plays are ampere, metepa, 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in permeate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 permeate produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mate, meat, meet, part, ramp, rate, and tape. 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 permeate turns up 38 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 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in permeate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, 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.
Swap a single tile in permeate and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
permeate 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 three senses for permeate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
permeate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing permeate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is permeate, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from permeate 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 permeate produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.