Hidden inside primus sit primus and purism, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
primus and purism tie for the highest Scrabble score from primus at 10 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in primus: one comes from rearranging its letters, and primus itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are primus and purism, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in primus. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are prims, prism, and rumps, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in primus produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rips and rums. For points, the strongest plays are imps, mips, prim, rump, simp, sump, and umps — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling primus turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rip, rum, sip, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are imp and ump — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in primus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, um, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mu, pi, um, and up — 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 primus and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
primus 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 two senses for primus. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
primus is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing primus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are primus and purism, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from primus 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 primus produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.