Hidden inside purist sit purist and upstir, 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.
purist and upstir tie for the highest Scrabble score from purist at 8 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in purist: one comes from rearranging its letters, and purist 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 purist and upstir, 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strip and trips. For points, the strongest plays are puris, sirup, situp, spirt, sprit, spurt, stirp, strip, trips, and turps — 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 purist produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pits, puts, rips, spit, stir, suit, and tips. For points, the strongest plays are pits, ptui, puri, purs, puts, rips, spit, spur, tips, trip, tups, 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 purist turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pit, put, rip, sip, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are pis, pit, piu, psi, pst, pur, pus, put, rip, sip, sup, tip, tup, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pi 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 purist 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.
purist 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 one sense for purist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
purist is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing purist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are purist and upstir, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from purist 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 purist produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.