Hidden inside purists sit purists and upstirs, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
purists and upstirs tie for the highest Scrabble score from purists at 9 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in purists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and purists itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are purists and upstirs, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling purists turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strips. For points, the strongest plays are purist, sirups, situps, spirts, sprits, spurts, stirps, strips, 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spits, stirs, strip, suits, and trips. For points, the strongest plays are priss, puris, sirup, situp, spirt, spits, sprit, spurs, 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 purists produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pits, psst, puts, rips, sips, sirs, and sits. For points, the strongest plays are piss, pits, psis, psst, ptui, puri, purs, puss, puts, rips, sips, spit, spur, sups, 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 purists turns up 25 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 purists. 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 purists and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
purists 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 purists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
purists is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing purists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are purists and upstirs, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from purists 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 purists produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.