Hidden inside persistent sit persistent, pinsetters, presentist and 1 other, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 521 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
persistent, pinsetters, presentist and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from persistent at 12 points. The top 10 of 521 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 ten-letter words hiding in persistent: three come from rearranging its letters, and persistent itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are persistent, pinsetters, presentist, and prettiness, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling persistent turns up 6 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with interests. For points, the strongest plays are pettiness and pinsetter — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persistent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with interest and presents. For points, the strongest plays are erepsins, ineptest, pensters, pertness, pestiest, presents, pretests, pretties, respites, ripeness, serpents, spinster, spitters, and tipsters — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in persistent produces 64 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, penises, pettier, present, priests, resents, and sitters. For points, the strongest plays are erepsin, esprits, inepter, insteps, penises, penster, persist, pertest, pesters, pestier, petites, petters, pettier, present, presets, pretest, priests, pterins, repents, repines, respite, septets, serpent, sitreps, snipers, spinets, spitter, spriest, sprints, sprites, stirpes, stripes, and tipster — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling persistent turns up 123 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, priest, prints, resent, resist, and series. For points, the strongest plays are espies, esprit, instep, peises, perses, pester, peters, petite, petter, pisser, pistes, preens, preset, prests, priest, prints, prises, pterin, repent, repine, repins, ripens, ripest, septet, sitrep, sniper, snipes, speers, speirs, speise, spense, spiers, spines, spinet, spires, spirts, spites, sprees, sprent, sprint, sprite, sprits, steeps, stipes, stirps, streps, stripe, strips, stript, and tripes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 138 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persistent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, nests, penes, penis, press, print, and rents. For points, the strongest plays are inept, neeps, peens, peers, peins, peise, penes, penis, peres, peris, perse, pests, peter, petit, petti, piers, pines, pints, pirns, piste, preen, prees, prese, press, prest, pries, print, prise, priss, repin, ripen, ripes, seeps, septs, sipes, snipe, snips, speer, speir, spent, spier, spies, spine, spins, spire, spirt, spite, spits, spree, sprit, steep, steps, stipe, stirp, strep, strip, tripe, and trips — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in persistent produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, pees, pens, pets, pies, and pins. For points, the strongest plays are neep, nips, peen, peer, pees, pein, pens, pent, pere, peri, pert, pest, pets, pier, pies, pine, pins, pint, pirn, piss, pits, pree, psis, psst, reps, ripe, rips, seep, seps, sept, sipe, sips, snip, spin, spit, step, tips, and trip — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling persistent turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, pee, pen, per, pet, and pie. For points, the strongest plays are nip, pee, pen, per, pes, pet, pie, pin, pis, pit, psi, pst, rep, rip, sip, and tip — each worth 5 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 persistent. 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 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in persistent plus one additional letter.
persistent 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 four senses for persistent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
persistent is one of four ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing persistent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are persistent, pinsetters, presentist, and prettiness, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from persistent 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 persistent produce 521 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 21 eight-letter words, 64 seven-letter words, 123 six-letter words, 138 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.