perpetrate needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perpetrate is the highest-scoring word from perpetrate, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in perpetrate — and it is perpetrate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perpetrate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are patterer, pretreat, repartee and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in perpetrate produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prepare. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including prepare, paperer and pretape.
Unscrambling perpetrate turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeat. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including peeper, rappee and rapper.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perpetrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paper and treat. For points, the strongest play is paper — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in perpetrate produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with part, rare and rate. For points, the strongest plays are peep, perp, prep, and repp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perpetrate turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, and pep — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perpetrate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in perpetrate plus one additional letter.
perpetrate 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 one sense for perpetrate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
perpetrate is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perpetrate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is perpetrate, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from perpetrate 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 perpetrate produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.