pertinency needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 248 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pertinency is the highest-scoring word from pertinency, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 248 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in pertinency — and it is pertinency itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pertinency produces exactly one nine-letter word: renitency. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinency. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are prentice and terpenic, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pertinency produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with percent and receipt. For points, the strongest plays are encrypt and pyretic — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pertinency turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, creepy and entire. For points, the strongest plays are creepy, crepey, ectype, and pricey — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinency. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, entry and inner. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including crepy, crypt and pricy.
Rearranging the letters in pertinency produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, city and epic. For points, the strongest play is pyic — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pertinency turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, eye and ice. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including cry, yep and icy.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinency. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
pertinency 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 one sense for pertinency. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
pertinency is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pertinency unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pertinency, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pertinency 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 pertinency produce 248 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.