pertinacious needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 2401 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pertinacious is the highest-scoring word from pertinacious, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 2401 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in pertinacious — and it is pertinacious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pertinacious produces exactly one eleven-letter word: precautions. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pertinacious produces 9 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ascription, isentropic, pernicious, precaution, speciation, and supertonic, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pertinacious turns up 54 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with countries, inspector, and reactions. For points, the strongest plays are caponiers, coparents, croupiest, epinastic, inceptors, inspector, opacities, operatics, opticians, outcapers, outprices, paucities, pectinous, pinaceous, portances, precisian, precision, procaines, proscenia, proteinic, psoriatic, and puritanic — 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 170 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinacious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancestor, auctions, captures, counters, counties, curtains, and pictures. For points, the strongest plays are apocrine, apricots, autopsic, canopies, cantrips, caponier, caponise, capstone, captions, captious, captures, conspire, coparent, crepitus, crispate, cuprites, ectopias, entropic, inceptor, incorpse, opencast, operatic, optician, outcaper, outpaces, outprice, pactions, paretics, parsonic, pecorini, periotic, picrates, picrites, pictures, piecrust, piracies, piscator, piscinae, porcinis, portance, postrace, pouncers, practise, precious, pretonic, priciest, procaine, puristic, saucepot, sinciput, and unpoetic — 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 pertinacious produces 363 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, aspirin, auction, capture, carpets, cartons, and certain. For points, the strongest plays are apercus, apnoeic, apricot, aprotic, aseptic, auspice, cantrip, capotes, caprine, caption, captors, capture, carpets, catnips, copiers, copters, crepons, crispen, croupes, cuprite, cuspate, ectopia, entopic, episcia, incepts, inscape, inspect, nepotic, outpace, paciest, paction, paeonic, paretic, parotic, patonce, pectins, picante, picaros, piceous, picrate, picrite, picture, pincers, piratic, piscina, piscine, poetics, porcine, porcini, pouncer, pounces, prances, preacts, precast, precuts, princes, prosaic, prosect, psionic, psoatic, puranic, recoups, scauper, scrapie, spacier, spectra, spicate, spicier, teacups, toecaps, triceps, tropics, and upcoast — 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 pertinacious turns up 541 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, actors, carpet, carton, casino, caters, and catsup. For points, the strongest plays are capers, capons, capote, capots, capris, captor, carpet, carpus, cartop, catnip, catsup, coapts, copens, copers, copier, copies, copras, copter, corpse, corpus, coupes, crapes, crepon, cripes, optics, pacers, pacier, panics, parsec, pecans, pectin, pianic, picaro, picots, pincer, pionic, poetic, ponces, pounce, prance, preact, precis, precut, prices, prince, puncta, recaps, recoup, spicae, spicer, spruce, teacup, toecap, topics, tricep, tropic, apercu, apices, apneic, aspect, atopic, croupe, croups, epacts, escarp, incept, scopae, scrape, script, secpar, septic, spacer, uncaps, and upcast — 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 603 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinacious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, aunts, autos, capes, cares, carts, and cater. For points, the strongest plays are aspic, caper, capes, capon, capos, capot, capri, caput, carpi, carps, coapt, copen, coper, copes, copra, copse, corps, coupe, coups, crape, craps, crept, cripe, crips, crisp, crops, croup, optic, pacer, paces, pacts, panic, pecan, percs, picas, picot, pisco, ponce, price, puces, recap, scape, scarp, scaup, scopa, scope, scrap, scrip, sepic, space, spect, spica, spice, topic, uncap, epact, and epics — 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 pertinacious produces 433 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, ants, anus, apes, arts, and aunt. For points, the strongest plays are cape, capo, caps, carp, ceps, cope, copi, cops, coup, crap, crip, crop, cups, cusp, epic, pace, pacs, pact, pecs, perc, pica, pice, pics, puce, scop, scup, 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 pertinacious turns up 188 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, ape, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, cop, cup, pac, pec, and pic — 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 38 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinacious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, pi, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
pertinacious 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 4-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 pertinacious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
pertinacious is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pertinacious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pertinacious, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pertinacious 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 pertinacious produce 2401 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 eleven-letter word, 9 ten-letter words, 54 nine-letter words, 170 eight-letter words, 363 seven-letter words, 541 six-letter words, 603 five-letter words, 433 four-letter words, 188 three-letter words and 38 two-letter words.