persona needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 218 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
persona is the highest-scoring word from persona, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 218 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in persona — and it is persona itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling persona turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with operas, person, and reason. For points, the strongest plays are aprons, arpens, operas, paeons, parens, pareos, parson, person, prones, and soaper — 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 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persona. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, opens, opera, porns, ropes, saner, and spare. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apron, arpen, aspen, asper, napes, neaps, opens, opera, paeon, panes, paren, pareo, pares, parse, paseo, peans, pears, peons, pones, pores, porns, poser, praos, prase, presa, proas, prone, prose, psoae, rapes, reaps, repos, ropes, sapor, sneap, spare, spean, spear, and spore — 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 persona produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, earn, ears, eras, naps, near, and nope. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apos, apse, epos, nape, naps, neap, nope, opas, open, opes, pane, pans, pare, pars, pase, pean, pear, peas, pens, peon, peso, pone, pons, pore, porn, pose, prao, proa, pros, rape, raps, rasp, reap, repo, reps, rope, snap, soap, spae, span, and spar — 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 persona turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, nap, nor, and one. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apo, asp, nap, opa, ope, ops, pan, par, pas, pea, pen, per, pes, pos, pro, rap, rep, sap, sop, and spa — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persona. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in persona and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
persona 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 persona. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
persona is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing persona unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is persona, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from persona 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 persona produce 218 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 13 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.