personnel needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 227 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
personnel is the highest-scoring word from personnel, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 227 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in personnel — and it is personnel itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in personnel produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with openers. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including openers, elopers and leprose.
Unscrambling personnel turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opener and person. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including opener, person and eloper.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in personnel. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loser, opens and peels. For points, 38 words tie at 7 points, including opens, peels and penes.
Rearranging the letters in personnel produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lose and none. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including nope, open and peel.
Unscrambling personnel turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, one and pee. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including pee, pen and per.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in personnel. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in personnel plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in personnel 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.
personnel 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 4-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 personnel. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
personnel is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing personnel unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is personnel, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from personnel 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 personnel produce 227 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.