Hidden inside pursued sit pudeurs, pursued, and usurped, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pudeurs, pursued, and usurped tie for the highest Scrabble score from pursued at 10 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in pursued: two come from rearranging its letters, and pursued itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pursued. For points, the strongest plays are pudeurs, pursued, and usurped — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pursued. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purse and super. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including drupe, duper and dupes.
Rearranging the letters in pursued produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pure, reps and rude. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including deps, dupe and dups.
Unscrambling pursued turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, per and red. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dup, ped, and pud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pursued plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pursued 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.
pursued 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 3-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 pursued. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pursued is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pursued unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pudeurs, pursued, and usurped, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pursued 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 pursued produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.