persistently needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
persistently is the highest-scoring word from persistently, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in persistently — and it is persistently itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in persistently produces 6 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are peristyles and spinsterly, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling persistently turns up 21 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with interests and silentest. For points, the strongest plays are epistyles, peristyle, presently, and splintery — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 80 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persistently. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entirely, entitles, eternity, interest, plenties, presents, and silenter. For points, the strongest plays are epistyle, peytrels, prettily, priestly, spritely, tintypes, trypsins, typesets, and yperites — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in persistently produces 185 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitle, entries, letters, listens, penises, pettier, and present. For points, the strongest plays are ineptly, pentyls, pettily, peytrel, pyrenes, pyrites, retypes, spittly, spleeny, spryest, steeply, stripey, tintype, trypsin, typeset, typiest, typists, yelpers, and yperite — 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 persistently turns up 254 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spines, splits, steels, steers, street, stripe, and strips. For points, the strongest plays are spitty, stripy, triply, peltry, pentyl, pertly, pinery, plenty, plyers, pretty, prissy, pyrene, pyrite, retype, ripely, sleepy, slypes, typier, typist, and yelper — 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 261 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persistently. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, peels, penes, penis, petty, piles, and press. For points, the strongest plays are peery, pesty, petty, piety, piney, pissy, plyer, preys, pyins, pyres, reply, seepy, slype, spiny, spiry, tipsy, types, yelps, and yipes — 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 persistently produces 195 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, less, lets, lies, line, lips, and list. For points, the strongest plays are pily, piny, pity, prey, pyes, pyin, pyre, spry, espy, type, yelp, yeps, yipe, and yips — 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 persistently turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eye, its, let, lie, lip, lit, and net. For points, the strongest plays are ply, pry, pye, spy, yep, and yip — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persistently. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
persistently 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 two senses for persistently. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
persistently is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing persistently unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is persistently, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from persistently 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 persistently produce 1105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 6 ten-letter words, 21 nine-letter words, 80 eight-letter words, 185 seven-letter words, 254 six-letter words, 261 five-letter words, 195 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.