permutes 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, 213 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
permutes is the highest-scoring word from permutes, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 213 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in permutes — and it is permutes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in permutes produces 8 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 meetups, permute, presume and 4 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling permutes turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meters, purest, and resume. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including meetup, sempre and septum.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in permutes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meets, meter and purse. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including sperm, temps and perms.
Rearranging the letters in permutes produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, must and pees. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including temp, perm and rump.
Unscrambling permutes turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, pee and per. For points, the strongest play is ump — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in permutes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, up, and us. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and up.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in permutes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in permutes 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.
permutes 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 3-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 permutes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
permutes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing permutes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is permutes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from permutes 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 permutes produce 213 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.