Hidden inside pertly sit peltry and pertly, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
peltry and pertly tie for the highest Scrabble score from pertly at 11 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in pertly: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pertly itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are peltry and pertly, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertly. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are plyer and reply, 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 pertly produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rely and type. For points, the strongest plays are prey, pyre, type, and yelp — 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 pertly turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, per, pet, rep, try, yep, and yet. For points, the strongest plays are ply, pry, pye, and yep — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertly. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in pertly and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
pertly 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 1-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 pertly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pertly is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pertly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are peltry and pertly, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pertly 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 pertly produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.