pertussal 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, 603 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pertussal is the highest-scoring word from pertussal, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 603 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pertussal — and it is pertussal itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertussal. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pastures, persalts, perusals, plasters, psalters, pulsates, spurtles, staplers, and upstares, 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 pertussal produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with results and sparest. For points, the strongest plays are lapsers, palters, pastels, pasters, pasture, pausers, persalt, perusal, petasus, plaster, platers, pleuras, psalter, pulsars, pulsate, pulsers, repasts, sparest, splurts, spurtle, stapler, staples, tapless, uprates, upstare, and uptears — 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 pertussal turns up 117 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, assure, lasers, pauses, plates, and purest. For points, the strongest plays are aspers, erupts, lapser, lapses, lapsus, letups, palest, palets, palter, pareus, parles, parses, passel, passer, pastel, paster, pastes, paters, pauser, pauses, pearls, pelaus, petals, plater, plates, pleats, pleura, pluses, prases, prates, prests, pulers, pulsar, pulser, pulses, purest, purses, repass, repast, saleps, sepals, septal, setups, slurps, spales, spares, sparse, spates, spears, spelts, splats, splurt, sprats, sprues, spurts, stapes, staple, straps, streps, stupas, stupes, supers, tapers, taupes, tepals, trapes, upases, uprate, upsets, and uptear — 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 181 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertussal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rules, sales, salts, seals, seats, setup, and slaps. For points, the strongest plays are salep, salps, sepal, septa, septs, setup, slaps, slept, slurp, spaes, spale, spare, spars, spate, spats, spear, spelt, splat, sprat, sprue, spues, spurs, spurt, sputa, steps, strap, strep, stupa, stupe, super, supes, supra, taper, tapes, tarps, taupe, tepal, tepas, apers, apres, apses, apter, asper, erupt, lapse, larps, leaps, leapt, lepta, letup, paler, pales, palet, pares, pareu, parle, parse, parts, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pater, pates, pause, peals, pearl, pears, peart, peats, pelau, pelts, pests, petal, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, prase, prate, prats, praus, presa, press, prest, pruta, pulas, puler, pules, pulse, purls, purse, puses, rapes, rasps, reaps, traps, turps, and upset — 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 pertussal produces 157 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, laps, last, late, leap, and less. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, asps, laps, larp, leap, lept, pale, pals, pare, pars, part, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, peal, pear, peas, peat, pelt, pert, pest, pets, plat, plea, plus, prat, prau, psst, pula, pule, puls, pure, purl, purs, puss, puts, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, salp, saps, seps, sept, slap, spae, spar, spas, spat, spue, spur, step, supe, sups, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, trap, tups, upas, and urps — 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 pertussal turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, asp, lap, pal, par, pas, pat, pea, per, pes, pet, pst, pul, pur, pus, put, rap, rep, sap, spa, sup, tap, tup, ups, and urp — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertussal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — 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 pertussal plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pertussal 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.
pertussal is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
pertussal is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pertussal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pertussal, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pertussal 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 pertussal produce 603 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 10 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 117 six-letter words, 181 five-letter words, 157 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.