Hidden inside perverse sit perverse and preserve, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perverse and preserve tie for the highest Scrabble score from perverse at 13 points. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in perverse: one comes from rearranging its letters, and perverse itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with preserve. For points, the strongest plays are perverse and preserve — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in perverse produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reserve, reverse, and severer. For points, the strongest plays are reserve, reveres, reverse, and severer — 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 perverse turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with severe. For points, the strongest plays are peeves and vesper — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perverse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with serve. For points, the strongest plays are peeve, pervs, and veeps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in perverse produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, eves, pees, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are perv and veep — 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 perverse turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, pee, per, rep, and see. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, sev, and vee — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perverse. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, 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 perverse 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.
perverse 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for perverse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
perverse is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perverse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are perverse and preserve, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from perverse 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 perverse produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.