pharisee needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 251 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pharisee is the highest-scoring word from pharisee, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 251 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in pharisee — and it is pharisee itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pharisee produces 5 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 harpies, heapers, reshape, and sharpie, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pharisee turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easier, herpes, phrase, and praise. For points, 15 words tie at 11 points, including herpes, phrase and heaper.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pharisee. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, hairs and hears. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including phase, shape and sharp.
Rearranging the letters in pharisee produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes and ears. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including hips, ship and epha.
Unscrambling pharisee turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including hip, hap and hep.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pharisee. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and eh. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in pharisee plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pharisee 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.
pharisee 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 pharisee carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for pharisee. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pharisee is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pharisee unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pharisee, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pharisee 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 pharisee produce 251 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.