powers needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PERWSO, SPOWER or WESOPR and you get the same 6 letters as POWERS: so the words from POWERS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
powers is the highest-scoring word from powers, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in powers — and it is powers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in powers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with power, ropes, swore, and worse. For points, the strongest plays are power and prows — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in powers produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owes, pose and pros. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including pews, pows and prow.
Unscrambling powers turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owe, per and pro. For points, the strongest plays are pew and pow — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in powers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, or and ow. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
9 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in powers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in powers and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
powers 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for powers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
powers is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing powers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is powers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from powers 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 powers produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 13 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.