Hidden inside pulses sit pluses and pulses, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pluses and pulses tie for the highest Scrabble score from pulses at 8 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in pulses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pulses 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 pluses and pulses, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pulses. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pules, pulse, puses, spues, and supes, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pulses produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, plus, sues, and uses. For points, the strongest plays are plus, pule, puls, puss, seps, spue, supe, and sups — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pulses turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sue and use. For points, the strongest plays are pes, pul, pus, sup, and ups — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pulses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with up and us. For points, the strongest plays are pe 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 pulses 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.
pulses 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 seven senses for pulses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
pulses is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pulses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pluses and pulses, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pulses 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 pulses produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.