Hidden inside purse sit purse, sprue, and super, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
purse, sprue, and super tie for the highest Scrabble score from purse at 7 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in purse: two come from rearranging its letters, and purse itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purse and super. For points, the strongest plays are purse, 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 purse produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pure, reps, and sure. For points, the strongest plays are pure, purs, reps, 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 purse turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, rep, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are 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 purse. 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.
30 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in purse plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in purse and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
purse 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 six senses for purse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
purse is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing purse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are purse, sprue, and super, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from purse 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 purse produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.