Hidden inside psoralen sit personal and psoralen, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 395 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
personal and psoralen tie for the highest Scrabble score from psoralen at 10 points. The top 10 of 395 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in psoralen: one comes from rearranging its letters, and psoralen itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with personal. For points, the strongest plays are personal and psoralen — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in psoralen produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are espanol, nopales, paroles and 5 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling psoralen turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learns, operas and person. For points, 31 words tie at 8 points, including operas, person and planes.
There are 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in psoralen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone, earns and lanes. For points, 71 words tie at 7 points, including leaps, opens and opera.
Rearranging the letters in psoralen produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, apes and lane. For points, 60 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling psoralen turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ear. For points, 26 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and nap.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in psoralen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and no. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in psoralen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in psoralen 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.
psoralen 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.
psoralen is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing psoralen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are personal and psoralen, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from psoralen 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 psoralen produce 395 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.