Hidden inside pursist 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.
Unscramble UPRISTS, STIRPUS or TRISSUP and you get the same 7 letters as PURSIST: so the words from PURSIST listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
PURSIST isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PURISTS and UPSTIRS.
purists and upstirs tie for the highest Scrabble score from pursist at 9 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in pursist produces 2 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 purists and upstirs, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pursist turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strips. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including strips, purist and sirups.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pursist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spits, stirs and strip. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including spits, strip and trips.
Rearranging the letters in pursist produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pits, psst and puts. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including pits, psst and puts.
Unscrambling pursist turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pit and put. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including pit, put and rip.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pursist. 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.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pursist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pursist 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are purists and upstirs, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pursist 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 pursist 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.