Hidden inside persued sit perdues, perused, and supered, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble REPUSED, SUPEDER or DUEPERS and you get the same 7 letters as PERSUED: so the words from PERSUED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
PERSUED isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PERDUES, PERUSED and SUPERED.
perdues, perused, and supered tie for the highest Scrabble score from persued at 10 points. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in persued produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perdues, perused, and supered, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling persued turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drupes, dupers, perdue and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in persued. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, purse, speed, and super. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including speed, deeps and drupe.
Rearranging the letters in persued produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and peed. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and deps.
Unscrambling persued turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, pee and per. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dup, ped, and pud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in persued plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in persued and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are perdues, perused, and supered, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from persued 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 persued produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.