Hidden inside pilferages sit persiflage and pilferages, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 666 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in pilferages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pilferages itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are persiflage and pilferages, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pilferages turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pilferage, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilferages. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is prefiles, 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 pilferages produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fragile and reliefs. For points, the strongest plays are felspar, pilfers, prefile, and prelife — 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 pilferages turns up 106 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, asleep, easier, falser, grapes, grease, and griefs. For points, the strongest plays are pilafs and pilfer — 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 205 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilferages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pages, pairs, peels, piles, rages, raise, and agree. For points, the strongest plays are pelfs, pilaf, flaps, flips, and fraps — 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 pilferages produces 190 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, apes, laps, leaf, leap, and legs. For points, the strongest plays are pelf, flap, flip, and frap — 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 pilferages turns up 98 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ape, are, ear, elf, and era. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilferages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, if, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in pilferages plus one additional letter.
pilferages appears in the word lists that Scrabble and Words With Friends validate against, so the rack is playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling. Its ten letters score 16 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words With Friends. The 3-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 pilferages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
pilferages is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pilferages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are persiflage and pilferages, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pilferages 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 pilferages produce 666 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 106 six-letter words, 205 five-letter words, 190 four-letter words, 98 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.
The anagram solver inside UnscrambleX compares pilferages against the dictionaries used by Scrabble, Words With Friends, Word Jumble, and Text Twist, keeps every arrangement those dictionaries contain, and sorts the confirmed words by tile score. That sorting step is why persiflage and pilferages appear at the top of the results. A word on this page is a legal play in Scrabble and Words With Friends, not a letter combination that only looks like a word.
Unscrambling pilferages produces two kinds of plays in Scrabble and Words With Friends: one high-scoring word, and one short word that fits a crowded board.
The high-scoring play is persiflage. The short plays are ae and ag, and they cover the turns when the board leaves no open line long enough for the bigger word.
The score gap is exact: the lowest-scoring word from these letters earns 2 points in Scrabble and the highest-scoring word earns 16 points. The letters are identical in both cases, so the board decides the value of the turn.
UnscrambleX lists every word from these letters with its Scrabble score and its Words With Friends score, so the choice between points and board position is made from numbers instead of memory.
The results list works as a vocabulary drill for Scrabble and Words With Friends players. Cover the list, rearrange pilferages in your head, and count how many of the 666 words you find before you check the answers.
Experienced players find the long words such as persiflage and pilferages without help. The short words are the ones that go unnoticed, and short words decide close games in Scrabble, Words With Friends, and Text Twist.
Repeat the drill on a few letter sets each day. Vowel positions, common endings such as -ed and -ing, and high-value tiles become recognisable without an unscrambler.
Unscrambling adds words that reading never supplies. No Scrabble player opens a dictionary to look for ae, and the word enters a playable vocabulary only because a results list produced it.
Spelling accuracy improves at the same time. Building persiflage from loose tiles forces one letter order and returns a correct or incorrect verdict inside the same move, which is faster feedback than a spelling test. Plays from pilferages range from 2 to 16 points in Scrabble, so every turn also asks a scoring question: take the points now, or keep the flexible tiles for the next turn.
Words assembled from tiles are remembered better than words only read, and timed games such as Text Twist and Word Jumble reward that recall directly.