pursuances needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 435 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pursuances is the highest-scoring word from pursuances, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 435 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in pursuances — and it is pursuances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pursuances produces exactly one nine-letter word: pursuance. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pursuances. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is scaupers, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pursuances produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pursues and scrapes. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including scrapes, apercus and escarps.
Unscrambling pursuances turns up 84 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anuses, assure and causes. For points, 20 words tie at 10 points, including scrape, spaces and apercu.
There are 123 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pursuances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cares and cases. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including capes, craps and space.
Rearranging the letters in pursuances produces 117 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, apes and naps. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including cape, caps and crap.
Unscrambling pursuances turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ass. 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 pursuances. 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.
pursuances 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 pursuances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
pursuances is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pursuances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pursuances, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pursuances 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 pursuances produce 435 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 84 six-letter words, 123 five-letter words, 117 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.