persuasion needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 767 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
persuasion is the highest-scoring word from persuasion, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 767 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in persuasion — and it is persuasion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling persuasion turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is aspersion, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persuasion. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are personas, pruinose, responsa, ropiness, senopias, and upraises, 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 persuasion produces 62 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with passion, persons, praises, prisons, reasons, seniors, and serious. For points, the strongest plays are aspires, epinaos, espoirs, inpours, orpines, paniers, pansies, paresis, parises, parsons, passion, pausers, persona, persons, poisers, poseurs, poussie, praises, prisons, prossie, puisnes, purines, pussier, rapines, sapiens, sapours, senopia, snipers, soapers, soapier, soprani, soupier, spinors, spinose, spinous, spireas, sprains, supines, suspire, unpairs, unropes, upraise, uprisen, uprises, and upsoars — 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 persuasion turns up 152 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anuses, assure, noises, nurses, operas, pauses, and person. For points, the strongest plays are aprons, arpens, aspens, aspers, aspire, espoir, inpour, inspos, operas, opines, opsins, opuses, orpine, orpins, paeons, panier, parens, pareos, pareus, paries, parous, parses, parson, paseos, passer, pauser, pauses, pernio, person, pianos, pisser, poiser, poises, ponies, porins, posers, poseur, posier, posies, praise, prases, prions, prises, prison, prones, proses, prunes, puisne, punier, purine, purins, purses, rapine, repass, repins, ripens, sapors, sapour, sepias, sirups, sneaps, sniper, snipes, soaper, spares, sparse, speans, spears, speirs, spiers, spines, spinor, spirea, spires, spores, spouse, sprain, sprues, spurns, supers, supine, unpair, unripe, unrips, unrope, upases, uprise, uprose, and upsoar — 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 215 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persuasion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noise, noses, nurse, opens, opera, pains, and pairs. For points, the strongest plays are napes, neaps, nipas, opens, opera, opine, opsin, orpin, paeon, pains, pairs, paise, panes, paren, pareo, pares, pareu, paris, parse, paseo, pases, passe, pause, peans, pears, peins, penis, peons, peris, pesos, piano, pians, piers, pinas, pines, pions, pious, pirns, pisos, poise, pones, pores, porin, porns, poser, poses, posse, pours, praos, prase, praus, presa, press, pries, prion, prise, priss, proas, prone, prose, pross, prune, psoae, psoai, psoas, punas, purin, puris, purse, puses, rapes, rasps, reaps, repin, repos, ripen, ripes, ropes, roups, sapor, sepia, sipes, sirup, snaps, sneap, snipe, snips, soaps, soups, spaes, spans, spare, spars, spean, spear, speir, spier, spies, spine, spins, spire, spore, sprue, spues, spurn, spurs, super, supes, supra, apers, apres, apron, apses, apsis, arpen, aspen, asper, aspis, inspo, and unrip — 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 persuasion produces 189 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, anus, apes, naps, near, nope, and nose. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apos, apse, asps, nape, naps, neap, nipa, nips, nope, opas, open, opes, opus, pain, pair, pane, pans, pare, pars, pase, pass, pean, pear, peas, pein, pens, peon, peri, peso, pian, pias, pier, pies, pina, pine, pins, pion, pirn, piso, piss, pois, pone, pons, pore, porn, pose, pour, prao, prau, proa, pros, psis, puna, puns, pure, puri, purs, puss, rape, raps, rasp, reap, repo, reps, ripe, rips, rope, roup, saps, seps, sipe, sips, snap, snip, soap, sops, soup, spae, span, spar, spas, spin, spue, spun, spur, epos, supe, sups, upas, upon, and urps — 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 persuasion turns up 102 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, ass, ear, era, and nap. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apo, asp, nap, nip, opa, ope, ops, pan, par, pas, pea, pen, per, pes, pia, pie, pin, pis, piu, poi, pos, pro, psi, pun, pur, pus, rap, rep, rip, sap, sip, sop, spa, sup, upo, ups, and urp — 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 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persuasion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, is, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, pi, po, 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 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in persuasion plus one additional letter.
persuasion 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 two senses for persuasion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
persuasion is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing persuasion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is persuasion, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from persuasion 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 persuasion produce 767 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 62 seven-letter words, 152 six-letter words, 215 five-letter words, 189 four-letter words, 102 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.