Hidden inside personals sit personals and psoralens, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 519 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
personals and psoralens tie for the highest Scrabble score from personals at 11 points. The top 10 of 519 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in personals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and personals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are personals and psoralens, 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 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in personals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with personal. For points, the strongest plays are personal, personas, psoralen, reposals, and responsa — 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 personals produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with persons and reasons. For points, the strongest plays are espanol, lapsers, napless, nopales, paroles, parsons, persona, persons, planers, plessor, prolans, replans, reposal, slopers, soapers, splores, and sponsal — 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 personals turns up 85 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasers, learns, lesson, losers, operas, person, and planes. For points, the strongest plays are aprons, arpens, aslope, aspens, aspers, lapser, lapses, lopers, nopals, operas, paeons, paleos, panels, parens, pareos, parles, parole, parols, parses, parson, paseos, passel, passer, pearls, person, planer, planes, pleons, polars, polers, posers, prases, prolan, proles, prones, proses, repass, replan, saleps, sapors, sepals, sloper, slopes, sneaps, soaper, spales, spares, sparse, speans, spears, splore, sporal, and spores — 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 160 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in personals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noses, opens, opera, plane, plans, poles, and porns. For points, the strongest plays are napes, neaps, nopal, opals, opens, opera, paeon, paleo, paler, pales, panel, panes, paren, pareo, pares, parle, parol, parse, paseo, pases, passe, peals, peans, pearl, pears, pelon, penal, peons, pesos, plane, plans, pleas, plena, pleon, polar, poler, poles, pones, pores, porns, poser, poses, posse, praos, prase, presa, press, proas, prole, prone, prose, pross, psoae, psoas, rapes, rasps, reaps, repos, apers, apres, apron, apses, arpen, aspen, asper, lapse, larps, leaps, loper, lopes, ropes, salep, salps, sapor, sepal, slaps, slope, slops, snaps, sneap, soaps, spaes, spale, spans, spare, spars, 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 personals produces 147 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, apes, lane, laps, lean, leap, and less. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apos, apse, asps, laps, larp, leap, lope, lops, nape, naps, neap, nope, opal, opas, open, opes, pale, pals, pane, pans, pare, pars, pase, pass, peal, pean, pear, peas, pens, peon, peso, plan, plea, pole, pols, pone, pons, pore, porn, pose, prao, proa, pros, rape, raps, rasp, reap, repo, reps, rope, salp, saps, seps, slap, slop, snap, soap, sops, spae, span, spar, spas, and epos — 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 personals turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ass, ear, era, lap, and nap. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apo, asp, lap, lop, nap, opa, ope, ops, pal, pan, par, pas, pea, pen, per, pes, pol, 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in personals. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in personals plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in personals and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
personals 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 six senses for personals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
personals is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing personals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are personals and psoralens, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from personals 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 personals produce 519 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 85 six-letter words, 160 five-letter words, 147 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.