pursues needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pursues is the highest-scoring word from pursues, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in pursues — and it is pursues itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pursues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press, purse, and super. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including press, purse and super.
Rearranging the letters in pursues produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pure, reps and sues. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including pure, reps and purs.
Unscrambling pursues turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, rep, sue, and use. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including per, rep and pes.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pursues plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pursues 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.
pursues 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 four senses for pursues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pursues is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pursues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pursues, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pursues 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 pursues produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.