Hidden inside porgies sit perogis, porgies, and serpigo, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perogis, porgies, and serpigo tie for the highest Scrabble score from porgies at 10 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in porgies: two come from rearranging its letters, and porgies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perogis, porgies, and serpigo, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling porgies turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with orgies. For points, the strongest plays are gripes, gropes, perogi, and pogies — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in porgies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grips and ropes. For points, the strongest plays are gorps, gripe, grips, grope, pirog, prigs, progs, sprig, and sprog — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in porgies produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes, grip, pies, pigs, pose, and pros. For points, the strongest plays are gips, gorp, grip, pegs, pigs, prig, and prog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling porgies turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, per, pie, pig, pro, rep, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, and pig — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in porgies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in porgies 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.
porgies 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for porgies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
porgies is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing porgies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are perogis, porgies, and serpigo, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from porgies 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 porgies produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.