pertnesses needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 218 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pertnesses is the highest-scoring word from pertnesses, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 218 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in pertnesses — and it is pertnesses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pertnesses turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pretenses and steepness, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertnesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with presents. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including presents, pensters and pertness.
Rearranging the letters in pertnesses produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with present, presses, and resents. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including present, presses and peeress.
Unscrambling pertnesses turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, resent and senses. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including pensee, perses and pester.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertnesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, nests and penes. For points, 23 words tie at 7 points, including penes, press and spent.
Rearranging the letters in pertnesses produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets and pees. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including pees, pens and pets.
Unscrambling pertnesses turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, pee and pen. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including pee, pen and per.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertnesses. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pertnesses plus one additional letter.
pertnesses 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 2-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 pertnesses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pertnesses is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pertnesses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pertnesses, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pertnesses 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 pertnesses produce 218 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.