pertinence needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pertinence is the highest-scoring word from pertinence, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in pertinence — and it is pertinence itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pertinence turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epicenter, epicentre, and penitence, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinence. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are prentice, pretence, tenpence, and terpenic, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pertinence produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with percent, receipt, and teenier. For points, the strongest plays are creepie, epicene, percent, precent, and receipt — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pertinence turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, entire, intern, prince, recent, and recipe. For points, the strongest plays are incept, pecten, pectin, piecer, pierce, pincer, prince, recept, recipe, and tricep — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinence. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, inner, nicer, niece, piece, price, and print. For points, the strongest plays are creep, crepe, crept, cripe, pence, piece, and price — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pertinence produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, epic, nice, nine, rent, rice, and teen. For points, the strongest plays are cepe, crip, epic, perc, and pice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pertinence turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, net, pee, pen, per, pet, and pie. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinence. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in pertinence plus one additional letter.
pertinence 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 one sense for pertinence. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
pertinence is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pertinence unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pertinence, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pertinence 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 pertinence produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.