Hidden inside pernogy sit progeny and pyrogen, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
PERNOGY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PROGENY and PYROGEN.
progeny and pyrogen tie for the highest Scrabble score from pernogy at 13 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in pernogy 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 progeny and pyrogen, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pernogy. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pogey, pongy, and porgy, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pernogy produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gone, grey and nope. For points, the strongest plays are gypo and pogy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pernogy turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, nor and one. For points, the strongest play is gyp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pernogy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pernogy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pernogy 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are progeny and pyrogen, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pernogy 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 pernogy produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.