puritans needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 309 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
puritans is the highest-scoring word from puritans, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 309 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in puritans — and it is puritans itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in puritans produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are puritan, spirant, suntrap and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling puritans turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paints, prints, and trains. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including paints, prints and inputs.
There are 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in puritans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, pains and paint. For points, 47 words tie at 7 points, including pains, paint and pairs.
Rearranging the letters in puritans produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and anus. For points, 49 words tie at 6 points, including naps, pain and pair.
Unscrambling puritans turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and art. For points, 30 words tie at 5 points, including nap, pan and pin.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in puritans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pi, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in puritans plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in puritans and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
puritans 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 3-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 puritans. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
puritans is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing puritans unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is puritans, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from puritans 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 puritans produce 309 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.