Hidden inside personal sit personal and psoralen, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 395 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
personal and psoralen tie for the highest Scrabble score from personal at 10 points. The top 10 of 395 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in personal: one comes from rearranging its letters, and personal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with personal. For points, the strongest plays are personal and psoralen — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in personal produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are espanol, nopales, paroles, persona, planers, prolans, replans, and reposal, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling personal turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learns, operas, person, planes, and reason. For points, the strongest plays are aprons, arpens, aslope, lapser, lopers, nopals, operas, paeons, paleos, panels, parens, pareos, parles, parole, parols, parson, pearls, person, planer, planes, pleons, polars, polers, prolan, proles, prones, replan, sloper, soaper, splore, and sporal — 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 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in personal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone, earns, lanes, laser, leans, leaps, and learn. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apron, arpen, aspen, asper, lapse, larps, leaps, loper, lopes, napes, neaps, nopal, opals, opens, opera, paeon, paleo, paler, pales, panel, panes, paren, pareo, pares, parle, parol, parse, paseo, peals, peans, pearl, pears, pelon, penal, peons, plane, plans, pleas, plena, pleon, polar, poler, poles, pones, pores, porns, poser, praos, prase, presa, proas, prole, prone, prose, psoae, rapes, reaps, repos, ropes, salep, sapor, sepal, slope, sneap, spale, spare, spean, spear, and spore — 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 personal produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, apes, lane, laps, lean, leap, and loan. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apos, apse, laps, larp, leap, lope, lops, nape, naps, neap, nope, opal, opas, open, opes, pale, pals, pane, pans, pare, pars, pase, peal, pean, pear, peas, pens, peon, peso, plan, plea, pole, pols, pone, pons, pore, porn, pose, prao, proa, pros, rape, raps, rasp, reap, repo, reps, rope, salp, slap, slop, snap, soap, spae, span, spar, and epos — 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 personal turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, lap, nap, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apo, asp, lap, lop, nap, opa, ope, ops, pal, pan, par, pas, pea, pen, per, pes, pol, pos, pro, rap, rep, sap, sop, and spa — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in personal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — 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 personal and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
personal 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 six senses for personal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
personal is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing personal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are personal and psoralen, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from personal 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 personal produce 395 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.