Hidden inside perusal sit perusal and pleuras, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 193 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perusal and pleuras tie for the highest Scrabble score from perusal at 9 points. The top 10 of 193 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in perusal: one comes from rearranging its letters, and perusal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perusal and pleuras, 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 perusal turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lapser, pareus, parles, pauser, pearls, pelaus, pleura, pulers, pulsar, and pulser, 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 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perusal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laser, leaps, lures, pause, purse, rules, and spare. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, asper, lapse, larps, leaps, paler, pales, pares, pareu, parle, parse, pause, peals, pearl, pears, pelau, pleas, prase, praus, presa, pulas, puler, pules, pulse, purls, purse, rapes, reaps, salep, sepal, slurp, spale, spare, spear, sprue, super, and supra — 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 perusal produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears, eras, laps, leap, lure, and pals. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, laps, larp, leap, pale, pals, pare, pars, pase, peal, pear, peas, plea, plus, prau, pula, pule, puls, pure, purl, purs, rape, raps, rasp, reap, reps, salp, slap, spae, spar, spue, spur, supe, 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 perusal turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, lap, pal, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, asp, lap, pal, par, pas, pea, per, pes, pul, pur, pus, rap, rep, sap, spa, sup, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perusal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, 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.
Swap a single tile in perusal and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
perusal 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 perusal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
perusal is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perusal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are perusal and pleuras, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from perusal 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 perusal produce 193 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.