Hidden inside perviousness sit perviousness and previousness, twelve-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 776 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perviousness and previousness tie for the highest Scrabble score from perviousness at 17 points. The top 10 of 776 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 twelve-letter words hiding in perviousness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and perviousness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these twelve-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perviousness and previousness, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in perviousness produces 5 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are responsive, supervises, and suspensive, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling perviousness turns up 16 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with responses and universes. For points, the strongest plays are overspins and supervise — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perviousness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with espresso, previous, response, sunrises, universe, and versions. For points, the strongest plays are overspin, oversups, pervious, previous, previses, and viperous — 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 perviousness produces 96 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nervous, openers, penises, persons, presses, prisons, and pussies. For points, the strongest plays are oversup, pensive, previse, prevues, vespers, and vespine — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling perviousness turns up 171 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issues, nerves, noises, nurses, opener, person, and ponies. For points, the strongest plays are pervos, prevue, proven, proves, vesper, and vipers — 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 189 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perviousness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerve, never, noise, noses, nurse, opens, and ovens. For points, the strongest plays are pervo, pervs, prove, spivs, veeps, and viper — 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 perviousness produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nope, nose, ones, open, ours, oven, and over. For points, the strongest plays are perv, spiv, 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 perviousness turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, nor, one, our, pee, pen, and per. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, sev, vee, vie, vin, vis, and voe — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perviousness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, or, so, and up. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, po, 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.
1 thirteen-letter word can be made using all the letters in perviousness plus one additional letter.
perviousness 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 perviousness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
perviousness is one of two twelve-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perviousness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are perviousness and previousness, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from perviousness 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 perviousness produce 776 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 twelve-letter words, 5 ten-letter words, 16 nine-letter words, 45 eight-letter words, 96 seven-letter words, 171 six-letter words, 189 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.