Hidden inside purslane sit purslane and supernal, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 308 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
purslane and supernal tie for the highest Scrabble score from purslane at 10 points. The top 10 of 308 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in purslane: one comes from rearranging its letters, and purslane itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are purslane and supernal, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in purslane produces 4 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 perusal, planers, pleuras, and replans, 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 purslane turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learns and planes. For points, the strongest plays are arpens, lapser, panels, parens, pareus, parles, pauser, pearls, pelaus, planer, planes, pleura, prunes, pulers, pulsar, pulser, and replan — 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 95 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purslane. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, lanes, laser, leans, leaps, learn, and lures. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, arpen, aspen, asper, lapse, larps, leaps, napes, neaps, paler, pales, panel, panes, paren, pares, pareu, parle, parse, pause, peals, peans, pearl, pears, pelau, penal, plane, plans, pleas, plena, prase, praus, presa, prune, pulas, puler, pules, pulse, punas, purls, purse, rapes, reaps, salep, sepal, slurp, sneap, spale, spare, spean, spear, sprue, spurn, super, supra, and ulpan — 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 purslane produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, apes, lane, laps, lean, leap, and lure. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, laps, larp, leap, nape, naps, neap, pale, pals, pane, pans, pare, pars, pase, peal, pean, pear, peas, pens, plan, plea, plus, prau, pula, pule, puls, puna, puns, pure, purl, purs, rape, raps, rasp, reap, reps, salp, slap, snap, spae, span, spar, spue, spun, spur, supe, upas, 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 purslane turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, lap, nap, and pal. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, asp, lap, nap, pal, pan, par, pas, pea, pen, per, pes, pul, pun, pur, pus, rap, rep, sap, spa, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purslane. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pa, 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.
Swap a single tile in purslane 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.
purslane 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 4-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 purslane. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
purslane is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing purslane unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are purslane and supernal, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from purslane 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 purslane produce 308 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 95 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.