purchases needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 435 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
purchases is the highest-scoring word from purchases, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 435 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in purchases — and it is purchases itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purchases. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: purchase, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in purchases produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crashes, crushes, phrases, and scrapes. For points, the strongest plays are eparchs, parches, scarphs, and upreach — 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 purchases turns up 89 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assure, cashes, causes, chases, curses, pauses, and phases. For points, the strongest plays are chapes, cheaps, eparch, preach, and scarph — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purchases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, capes, cares, cases, cause, chase, and cheap. For points, the strongest plays are caphs, chape, chaps, cheap, parch, peach, pechs, and perch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in purchases produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cape, caps, care, cars, case, and cash. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, and pech — 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 purchases turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ash, ass, cap, car, and cue. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, hup, pah, and peh — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purchases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, sh, and uh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in purchases plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in purchases and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
purchases 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 five senses for purchases. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
purchases is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing purchases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is purchases, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from purchases 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 purchases produce 435 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 89 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.