primuses needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 210 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
primuses is the highest-scoring word from primuses, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 210 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in primuses — and it is primuses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in primuses produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with impress. For points, the strongest plays are impress, premiss, purisms, simpers, spirems, spumier, and umpires — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling primuses turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purses and sperms. For points, the strongest plays are impure, primes, primus, prisms, purism, simper, sperms, spirem, spumes, and umpire — 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 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in primuses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issue, press, prime, purse, rises, sperm, and spies. For points, the strongest plays are perms, prime, prims, prism, rumps, simps, sperm, spume, and sumps — 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 primuses produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, miss, pies, pure, reps, rips, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are imps, mips, perm, 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 primuses turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pie, rep, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in primuses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me, um, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mu, pe, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in primuses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in primuses and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
primuses 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.
primuses is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing primuses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is primuses, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from primuses 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 primuses produce 210 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 13 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.