persistences needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 778 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
persistences is the highest-scoring word from persistences, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 778 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in persistences — and it is persistences itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eleven-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persistences. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crepinesses, persistence, and preciseness, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in persistences produces 8 valid ten-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with princesses. For points, the strongest plays are creepiness, epicenters, epicentres, princesses, and reinspects — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling persistences turns up 27 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with creepiest, presences, and sincerest. For points, the strongest plays are creepiest, crepiness, crispness, epicenter, epicentre, precesses, precisest, prentices, prescient, presences, pretences, princesse, reinspect, and tricepses — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 61 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persistences. If a familiar word is all you need, start with essences, percents, presence, presents, princess, receipts, and recesses. For points, the strongest plays are cesspits, creepies, crepiest, crispens, crispest, epicenes, inspects, pectines, percents, precents, precises, prentice, presence, pretence, princess, receipts, respects, scepters, sceptres, specters, spectres, spencers, and terpenic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in persistences produces 128 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, entries, essence, penises, percent, present, and presses. For points, the strongest plays are cesspit, creepie, crispen, epicene, incepts, inspect, pectens, pectins, percent, piecers, pierces, pincers, precent, precess, precise, princes, receipt, recepts, recipes, respect, scepter, sceptre, scripts, septics, species, specter, spectre, spencer, spences, spicers, and triceps — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling persistences turns up 177 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, creeps, crises, enters, entire, nicest, and nieces. For points, the strongest plays are creeps, crepes, cripes, crisps, incept, pecten, pectin, piecer, pieces, pierce, pincer, precis, prices, prince, recept, recipe, scrips, script, septic, specie, spects, spence, spicer, spices, and tricep — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 175 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persistences. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scene, scent, sense, since, siren, sites, and spent. For points, the strongest plays are scrip, sepic, specs, spect, spice, cepes, creep, crepe, crept, cripe, crips, crisp, epics, pence, percs, piece, and price — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in persistences produces 124 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, nice, pees, pens, pets, and pies. For points, the strongest plays are pecs, perc, pice, pics, spec, cepe, ceps, crip, and epic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling persistences turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its, net, pee, pen, per, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persistences. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 thirteen-letter word can be made using all the letters in persistences plus one additional letter.
persistences 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 three senses for persistences. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
persistences is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing persistences unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is persistences, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from persistences 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 persistences produce 778 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 3 eleven-letter words, 8 ten-letter words, 27 nine-letter words, 61 eight-letter words, 128 seven-letter words, 177 six-letter words, 175 five-letter words, 124 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.