Hidden inside permits sit imprest and permits, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imprest and permits tie for the highest Scrabble score from permits at 11 points. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in permits: one comes from rearranging its letters, and permits itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with permits. For points, the strongest plays are imprest and permits — 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 permits turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with permit, priest, and stripe. For points, the strongest plays are permit, primes, simper, and spirem — 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 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in permits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, prime, sperm, strip, temps, terms, and times. For points, the strongest plays are perms, prime, prims, prism, sperm, tempi, and temps — 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 permits produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, pets, pies, pits, reps, rest, and rips. For points, the strongest plays are imps, mips, perm, prim, simp, 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 permits turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, per, pet, pie, pit, and rep. For points, the strongest play is imp — 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 permits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, 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 permits 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.
permits 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 six senses for permits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
permits is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing permits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are imprest and permits, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from permits 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 permits produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.