persists needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
persists is the highest-scoring word from persists, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in persists — and it is persists itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in persists produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priests, resists, sisters, and stripes. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including priests, stripes and esprits.
Unscrambling persists turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priest, resist and sister. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including priest, stripe and strips.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press, rests and rises. For points, 27 words tie at 7 points, including press, spies and spits.
Rearranging the letters in persists produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, pies and pits. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including pets, pies and pits.
Unscrambling persists turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, per and pet. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including per, pet and pie.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in persists plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in persists and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
persists 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 1-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 persists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
persists is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing persists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is persists, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from persists 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 persists produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.