purveyance needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
purveyance is the highest-scoring word from purveyance, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in purveyance — and it is purveyance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling purveyance produces exactly one eight-letter word: parvenue. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling purveyance produces exactly one seven-letter word: parvenu. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling purveyance turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with avenue and creepy. For points, the strongest plays are curvey, peavey, and purvey — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purveyance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carve, every and nerve. For points, the strongest plays are curvy, peavy, and pervy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in purveyance produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, care and cave. For points, the strongest play is cavy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling purveyance turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, ape and are. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including cry, pay and yep.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purveyance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, and up. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in purveyance plus one additional letter.
purveyance 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 purveyance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
purveyance is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing purveyance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is purveyance, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from purveyance 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 purveyance produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 26 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.