pertinent needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pertinent is the highest-scoring word from pertinent, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pertinent — and it is pertinent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with internet. For points, the strongest play is penitent — 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 pertinent produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pettier. For points, the strongest plays are inepter and pettier — 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 pertinent turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entire and intern. For points, the strongest plays are penner, petite, petter, pinene, pinner, pterin, repent, repine, and tenpin — 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, inner, and print. For points, the strongest plays are inept, penne, penni, peter, petit, petti, preen, print, repin, ripen, and tripe — 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 pertinent produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nine, rent, teen, tent, tire, tree, and trip. For points, the strongest plays are neep, peen, peer, pein, pent, pere, peri, pert, pier, pine, pint, pirn, pree, ripe, and trip — 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 pertinent turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, pee, pen, per, pet, pie, and pin. For points, the strongest plays are nip, pee, pen, per, pet, pie, pin, pit, rep, rip, and tip — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinent. 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 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in pertinent plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pertinent 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.
pertinent 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 pertinent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pertinent is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pertinent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pertinent, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pertinent 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 pertinent produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.