Hidden inside perusing sit perusing and supering, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 266 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perusing and supering tie for the highest Scrabble score from perusing at 11 points. The top 10 of 266 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in perusing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and perusing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perusing and supering, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in perusing produces 8 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 guineps, pingers, pursing, repugns, and springe, 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 perusing turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genius, singer, and spring. For points, the strongest plays are genips, gripes, guinep, pignus, pinger, purges, repugn, spring, sprung, spuing, spurge, unpegs, and urping — 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 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perusing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grips, nurse, penis, purse, rings, risen, and ruins. For points, the strongest plays are genip, gripe, grips, pings, prigs, pungs, purge, sprig, sprug, and unpeg — 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 perusing produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grip, guns, pens, pies, pigs, pins, and pure. For points, the strongest plays are gips, grip, pegs, pigs, ping, prig, pugs, and pung — 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 perusing turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, pen, per, pie, pig, pin, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, pig, and pug — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perusing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pe, pi, 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 perusing 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.
perusing 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 4-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 perusing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
perusing is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perusing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are perusing and supering, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from perusing 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 perusing produce 266 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.