personae 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, 276 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
personae is the highest-scoring word from personae, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 276 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in personae — and it is personae itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in personae produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with openers. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including openers, paneers and pereons.
Unscrambling personae turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opener, operas, person, and reason. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including opener, operas and person.
There are 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in personae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, erase and opens. For points, 54 words tie at 7 points, including opens, opera and penes.
Rearranging the letters in personae produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, naps and near. For points, 50 words tie at 6 points, including apes, naps and nope.
Unscrambling personae turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ear. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in personae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and no. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in personae plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in personae 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.
personae 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.
personae is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing personae unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is personae, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from personae 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 personae produce 276 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.