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.
persiflage and pilferages tie for the highest Scrabble score from pilferages at 16 points. The top 10 of 666 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Unscrambling pilferages turns up 106 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, asleep and easier. For points, the strongest plays are pilafs and pilfer — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
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 and peels. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including flaps, flips and pelfs.
Rearranging the letters in pilferages produces 190 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and apes. For points, the strongest plays are pelf, flap, flip, and frap — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pilferages turns up 98 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ape. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in pilferages plus one additional letter.
pilferages 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 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.