perversity needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 348 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perversity is the highest-scoring word from perversity, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 348 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in perversity — and it is perversity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perversity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with perverts. For points, the strongest play is severity — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in perversity produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pervert and retires. For points, the strongest play is servery — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perversity turns up 59 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priest, retire, rivers, and stripe. For points, the strongest plays are revery, severy, verity, and vestry — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perversity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with every, river and serve. For points, the strongest plays are pervy and privy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in perversity produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, eves and eyes. For points, the strongest plays are tivy and very — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perversity turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, eye and its. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perversity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
perversity 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for perversity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
perversity is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perversity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is perversity, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from perversity 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 perversity produce 348 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 59 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.