perpetuity needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perpetuity is the highest-scoring word from perpetuity, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in perpetuity — and it is perpetuity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perpetuity produces exactly one eight-letter word: peripety. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in perpetuity produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pettier. For points, the strongest play is pretype — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perpetuity turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pretty. For points, the strongest plays are trippy, uppity, yippee, and yuppie — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perpetuity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with petty, upper, and uteri. For points, the strongest play is tippy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in perpetuity produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pipe, pity and pure. For points, the strongest plays are pipy and typp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perpetuity turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eye, pee and per. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including yep, pry and pye.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perpetuity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it and up. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
perpetuity 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 perpetuity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
perpetuity is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perpetuity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is perpetuity, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from perpetuity 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 perpetuity produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.