Hidden inside pernod sit pernod, ponder, and proned, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pernod, ponder, and proned tie for the highest Scrabble score from pernod at 9 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in pernod: two come from rearranging its letters, and pernod itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pernod, ponder, and proned, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pernod. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are doper, pedro, pored, and roped, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pernod produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, drop and nerd. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including drop, pond and dope.
Unscrambling pernod turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, nor and one. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pernod. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
13 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pernod plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pernod and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
pernod 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 pernod. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pernod is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pernod unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pernod, ponder, and proned, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pernod 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 pernod produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.