purtenance 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, 337 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
purtenance is the highest-scoring word from purtenance, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 337 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in purtenance — and it is purtenance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purtenance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entrance. For points, the strongest play is preenact — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in purtenance produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capture and percent. For points, the strongest plays are capture, penance, percent, and precent — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling purtenance turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, center, create, nature, neater, parent, and peanut. For points, the strongest plays are apercu, carpet, pecten, prance, preact, precut, puncta, recept, and teacup — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purtenance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, cuter, eaten, enter, peace, and react. For points, the strongest plays are caper, caput, crape, creep, crepe, crept, epact, pacer, peace, pecan, pence, recap, and uncap — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in purtenance produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, cape, care, cart, cent, crap, and cure. For points, the strongest plays are cape, carp, cepe, crap, pace, pact, perc, and puce — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling purtenance turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ape, are, art, ate, and can. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, cup, pac, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purtenance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, and up. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in purtenance plus one additional letter.
purtenance 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.
purtenance is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing purtenance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is purtenance, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from purtenance 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 purtenance produce 337 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.