perseverate needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 398 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perseverate is the highest-scoring word from perseverate, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 398 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in perseverate — and it is perseverate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perseverate turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is persevere, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perseverate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with perverts and preserve. For points, the strongest plays are perverse, perverts, preavers, and preserve — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in perseverate produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pervert, repeats, reserve, reverse, and severer. For points, the strongest plays are pervert, preaver, repaves, and veepees — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling perseverate turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter, rarest, repeat, severe, sparer, and starve. For points, the strongest plays are pareve, pavers, peeves, repave, vapers, veepee, and vesper — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perseverate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, parts, rates, serve, spare, stare, and steer. For points, the strongest plays are parve, paver, paves, peeve, pervs, vaper, vapes, and veeps — 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 perseverate produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, ears, ease, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are pave, perv, vape, and veep — 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 perseverate turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ave, eve, rev, sev, tav, var, vas, vat, vee, and vet — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perseverate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in perseverate plus one additional letter.
perseverate 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 one sense for perseverate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
perseverate is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perseverate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is perseverate, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from perseverate 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 perseverate produce 398 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.