perusals needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 269 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perusals is the highest-scoring word from perusals, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 269 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in perusals — and it is perusals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in perusals produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lapsers, pausers, perusal, pleuras, pulsars, and pulsers, 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 perusals turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assure, lasers, pauses, purses, and spares. For points, the strongest plays are aspers, lapser, lapses, lapsus, pareus, parles, parses, passel, passer, pauser, pauses, pearls, pelaus, pleura, pluses, prases, pulers, pulsar, pulser, pulses, purses, repass, saleps, sepals, slurps, spales, spares, sparse, spears, sprues, supers, and upases — 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 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perusals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laser, leaps, lures, pause, press, purse, and rules. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apses, asper, lapse, larps, leaps, paler, pales, pares, pareu, parle, parse, pases, passe, pause, peals, pearl, pears, pelau, pleas, prase, praus, presa, press, pulas, puler, pules, pulse, purls, purse, puses, rapes, rasps, reaps, salep, salps, sepal, slaps, slurp, spaes, spale, spare, spars, spear, sprue, spues, spurs, super, supes, 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 perusals produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears, eras, laps, leap, less, and lure. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, asps, laps, larp, leap, pale, pals, pare, pars, pase, pass, peal, pear, peas, plea, plus, prau, pula, pule, puls, pure, purl, purs, puss, rape, raps, rasp, reap, reps, salp, saps, seps, slap, spae, spar, spas, spue, spur, supe, sups, 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 perusals turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ass, ear, era, lap, and pal. 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 perusals. 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 perusals and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
perusals 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 perusals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
perusals is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perusals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is perusals, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from perusals 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 perusals produce 269 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.