Hidden inside periscope sit pericopes and periscope, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pericopes and periscope tie for the highest Scrabble score from periscope at 15 points. The top 10 of 252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in periscope: one comes from rearranging its letters, and periscope itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pericopes and periscope, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in periscope. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are croppies, episcope, pericope, and precipes, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in periscope produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copiers and recipes. For points, the strongest plays are coppers, croppie, precipe, and precips — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling periscope turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copier, copies, corpse, creeps, pieces, prices, and recipe. For points, the strongest plays are copper and precip — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in periscope. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cries, piece, pipes, popes, price, and props. For points, the strongest plays are cepes, coper, copes, copse, corps, creep, crepe, cripe, crips, crisp, crops, epics, peeps, pepos, percs, perps, piece, piper, pipes, pisco, popes, preop, preps, price, props, repps, scope, scrip, sepic, and spice — 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 periscope produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cops, core, epic, ices, pees, pies, and pipe. For points, the strongest plays are cepe, ceps, cope, copi, cops, crip, crop, epic, pecs, peep, pepo, peps, perc, perp, pice, pics, pipe, pips, pope, pops, prep, prop, repp, scop, and spec — 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 periscope turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, ice, pee, per, pie, pop, and pro. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, pec, pep, pic, pip, and pop — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in periscope. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in periscope plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in periscope and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
periscope 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 one sense for periscope. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
periscope is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing periscope unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pericopes and periscope, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from periscope 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 periscope produce 252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.