Hidden inside peristome sit peristome and temporise, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 512 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
peristome and temporise tie for the highest Scrabble score from peristome at 13 points. The top 10 of 512 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in peristome: one comes from rearranging its letters, and peristome 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 peristome and temporise, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peristome. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emptiers, epistome, epitomes, imposter, moperies, promisee, reimpose, and stompier, each 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 peristome produces 44 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empires, emptier, meteors, moister, permits, promise, and remotes. For points, the strongest plays are empires, emprise, emptier, empties, epimers, episome, epitome, imports, imposer, imprese, imprest, metopes, mopiest, optimes, permits, premies, premise, promise, semipro, septime, spireme, stomper, tempers, trompes, and tropism — 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 peristome turns up 84 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, meteor, meters, permit, poster, priest, and remote. For points, the strongest plays are empire, epimer, import, impose, impost, impros, metope, mopers, mopier, optime, permit, porism, premie, primes, primos, proems, sempre, simper, spirem, temper, tempos, trompe, and tromps — 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 140 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peristome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets, meter, moist, poems, poets, and prime. For points, the strongest plays are impro, moper, mopes, perms, poems, pomes, prime, primo, prims, prism, proem, proms, romps, sperm, stomp, tempi, tempo, temps, and tromp — 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 peristome produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, mops, more, most, pees, pets, and pies. For points, the strongest plays are mips, mope, mops, perm, poem, pome, poms, prim, prom, romp, simp, imps, and temp — 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 peristome turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, mop, pee, per, pet, and pie. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peristome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, me, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, om, 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.
10 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in peristome plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in peristome 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.
peristome 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for peristome. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
peristome is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing peristome unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are peristome and temporise, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from peristome 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 peristome produce 512 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 44 seven-letter words, 84 six-letter words, 140 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.