Hidden inside persisting sit persisting and springiest, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 476 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
persisting and springiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from persisting at 13 points. The top 10 of 476 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in persisting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and persisting 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 persisting and springiest, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling persisting turns up 5 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resisting. For points, the strongest plays are priesting, respiting, and stripings — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persisting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inspires and pressing. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including pressing, gripiest and pigsties.
Rearranging the letters in persisting produces 53 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inspire, priests and resting. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including springs, gipsies and peising.
Unscrambling persisting turns up 96 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insist, pities and priest. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including spring, genips and gripes.
There are 115 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persisting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, grips and nests. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including grips, genip and gripe.
Rearranging the letters in persisting produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets and pens. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including pigs, grip and pegs.
Unscrambling persisting turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, its and net. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persisting. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in persisting plus one additional letter.
persisting 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 one sense for persisting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
persisting is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing persisting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are persisting and springiest, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from persisting 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 persisting produce 476 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 53 seven-letter words, 96 six-letter words, 115 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.