purgation needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 377 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
purgation is the highest-scoring word from purgation, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 377 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in purgation — and it is purgation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purgation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are trouping and uprating, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in purgation produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pouring. For points, the strongest plays are gunport, ingroup, parting, pignora, porting, pouring, pouting, prating, and rouping — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling purgation turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guitar, rating, and taping. For points, the strongest plays are opting, paring, pignut, pigout, poring, progun, ragtop, raping, roping, taping, toping, upgirt, and urping — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purgation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant, grant, groin, group, organ, paint, and piano. For points, the strongest plays are aping, gipon, gript, group, oping, pargo, pingo, pirog, prang, and prong — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in purgation produces 116 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto, gain, goat, grip, into, and iron. For points, the strongest plays are gorp, grip, pang, ping, pong, prig, prog, and pung — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling purgation turns up 91 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, air, ant, art, gap, got, and gun. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, pig, and pug — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purgation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pi, po, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in purgation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in purgation 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.
purgation 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for purgation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
purgation is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing purgation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is purgation, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from purgation 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 purgation produce 377 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 116 four-letter words, 91 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.