pursuance needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 311 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pursuance is the highest-scoring word from pursuance, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 311 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pursuance — and it is pursuance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pursuance produces 5 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 apercus, prances, and scauper, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pursuance turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pursue and scrape. For points, 15 words tie at 10 points, including scrape, apercu and capers.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pursuance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cares and cause. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including capes, craps and space.
Rearranging the letters in pursuance produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, apes and cans. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including cape, caps and crap.
Unscrambling pursuance turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and can. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cup and cep.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pursuance. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in pursuance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pursuance and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
pursuance 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for pursuance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pursuance is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pursuance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pursuance, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pursuance 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 pursuance produce 311 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.