Hidden inside perused sit perdues, perused, and supered, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perdues, perused, and supered tie for the highest Scrabble score from perused at 10 points. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in perused: two come from rearranging its letters, and perused 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 perdues, perused, and supered, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling perused 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 drupes, dupers, perdue, perdus, prudes, pureed, and pursed, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perused. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, purse, speed, and super. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, drupe, duper, dupes, pedes, perdu, preed, prude, pseud, speed, spued, and urped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in perused produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, peed, pees, pure, reps, and rude. For points, the strongest plays are deep, deps, dupe, dups, peds, peed, puds, sped, and spud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling perused turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, pee, per, red, rep, see, and sue. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dup, ped, and pud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perused. If a familiar word is all you need, start with up and us. For points, the strongest plays are 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 perused 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.
perused 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.
perused is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perused unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are perdues, perused, and supered, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from perused 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 perused produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.