pursuant needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pursuant is the highest-scoring word from pursuant, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in pursuant — and it is pursuant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pursuant 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 suntrap, turnups, unstrap, and upturns, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pursuant turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are prunus, turnup, and upturn, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pursuant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, pants and parts. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including pants, parts and strap.
Rearranging the letters in pursuant produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and arts. For points, 29 words tie at 6 points, including naps, pans and part.
Unscrambling pursuant turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, art and nap. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including nap, pan and put.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pursuant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in pursuant 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.
pursuant 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 pursuant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pursuant is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pursuant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pursuant, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pursuant 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 pursuant produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.