peruses needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
peruses is the highest-scoring word from peruses, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in peruses — and it is peruses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling peruses turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purses. For points, the strongest plays are perses, peruse, purees, purses, rupees, speers, sprees, sprues, and supers — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peruses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press, purse, and super. For points, the strongest plays are peers, peres, perse, prees, prese, press, puree, purse, puses, rupee, seeps, speer, spree, sprue, spues, spurs, super, and supes — 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 peruses produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees, pure, reps, sees, sues, sure, and uses. For points, the strongest plays are peer, pees, pere, pree, pure, purs, puss, reps, seep, seps, spue, spur, supe, sups, 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 peruses turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, rep, see, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are pee, per, pes, pur, pus, rep, 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peruses. 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 peruses 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.
peruses 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.
peruses is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing peruses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is peruses, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from peruses 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 peruses produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.