permian needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
permian is the highest-scoring word from permian, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in permian — and it is permian itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in permian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prime. For points, the strongest plays are prima, prime, and remap — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in permian produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, earn and main. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including ramp, perm and pima.
Unscrambling permian turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and ape. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in permian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, in, and me. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in permian plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in permian and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
permian is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for permian. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
permian is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing permian unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is permian, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from permian 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 permian produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.