pursuit 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, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pursuit is the highest-scoring word from pursuit, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in pursuit — and it is pursuit itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pursuit turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are purist and upstir, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pursuit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strip and trips. For points, the strongest plays are puris, sirup, situp, spirt, sprit, spurt, stirp, strip, trips, turps, and usurp — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pursuit produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pits, puts, rips, spit, stir, suit, and tips. For points, the strongest plays are pits, ptui, puri, purs, puts, rips, spit, spur, tips, trip, tups, and urps — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pursuit turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pit, put, rip, sip, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are pis, pit, piu, psi, pst, pur, pus, put, rip, sip, sup, tip, tup, ups, and urp — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pursuit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pi and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in pursuit 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.
pursuit 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 pursuit. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pursuit is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pursuit unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pursuit, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pursuit 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 pursuit produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.