petrify needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
petrify is the highest-scoring word from petrify, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in petrify — and it is petrify itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in petrify. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fiery, reify, and treyf, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in petrify produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fire, pity and tire. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including pity, type and prey.
Unscrambling petrify turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, fry and per. For points, the strongest plays are fey and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in petrify. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in petrify plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in petrify 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.
petrify 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in petrify carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for petrify. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
petrify is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing petrify unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is petrify, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from petrify 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 petrify produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.