persuades needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 359 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
persuades is the highest-scoring word from persuades, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 359 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in persuades — and it is persuades itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persuades. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aspersed, persuade, repassed, and respades, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in persuades produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assured, pressed, and spreads. For points, the strongest plays are depress, perdues, perused, pesades, pressed, respade, spaders, speared, spreads, and supered — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling persuades turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assure, erased, erases, passed, paused, pauses, and purses. For points, the strongest plays are drapes, drupes, dupers, padres, pardee, parsed, passed, paused, perdue, perdus, pesade, prudes, pseuds, purdas, pureed, pursed, rasped, reaped, spader, spades, spared, speeds, and spread — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persuades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dears, deers, dress, eased, eases, and erase. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, drape, drupe, duper, dupes, padre, pards, pared, pedes, perdu, preed, prude, pseud, purda, raped, spade, spaed, speed, spuds, spued, and urped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in persuades produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, dare, dear, deep, deer, ears, and ease. For points, the strongest plays are aped, daps, deep, deps, dupe, dups, pads, pard, peds, peed, puds, sped, and spud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling persuades turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, are, ass, due, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, dup, pad, ped, and pud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persuades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in persuades plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in persuades 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.
persuades 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 persuades. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
persuades is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing persuades unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is persuades, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from persuades 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 persuades produce 359 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.