Hidden inside perform sit perform and preform, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perform and preform tie for the highest Scrabble score from perform at 14 points. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in perform: one comes from rearranging its letters, and perform itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with perform. For points, the strongest plays are perform and preform — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling perform turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with former. For points, the strongest plays are former and reform — 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perform. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is forme, 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 perform produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with form, from, more, poem, prom, and rope. For points, the strongest plays are form, from, and prof — 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 perform turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with for, mop, per, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are fem and fop — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perform. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, of, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — each worth 5 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 perform 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.
perform 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 four senses for perform. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
perform is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perform unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are perform and preform, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from perform 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 perform produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.