Hidden inside purees sit peruse, purees, and rupees, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
peruse, purees, and rupees tie for the highest Scrabble score from purees at 8 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in purees: two come from rearranging its letters, and purees 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 peruse, purees, and rupees, 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purse and super. For points, the strongest plays are peers, peres, perse, prees, prese, puree, purse, rupee, speer, spree, sprue, and super — 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 purees produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees, pure, reps, and sure. For points, the strongest plays are peer, pees, pere, pree, pure, purs, reps, seep, spue, spur, supe, and urps — 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 purees turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, rep, see, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are pee, per, pes, pur, pus, rep, sup, ups, and urp — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purees. 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 purees 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.
purees 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 two senses for purees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
purees is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing purees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are peruse, purees, and rupees, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from purees 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 purees produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.