Hidden inside pertinacity sit antipyretic and pertinacity, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 547 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antipyretic and pertinacity tie for the highest Scrabble score from pertinacity at 18 points. The top 10 of 547 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in pertinacity: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pertinacity itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antipyretic and pertinacity, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling pertinacity turns up 8 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is antitypic, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinacity. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antipyic, apyretic, and triptyca, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pertinacity produces 52 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain, patient, and pattern. For points, the strongest plays are cyprian, encrypt, patency, pyretic, pyritic, and tryptic — 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 pertinacity turns up 88 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, parent, pirate, pretty, prince, and tinier. For points, the strongest plays are atypic, piracy, and pricey — 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 129 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinacity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, cater, entry, nicer, paint, panic, and party. For points, the strongest plays are crepy, crypt, pacey, pricy, pyric, and typic — 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 pertinacity produces 141 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, care, cart, cent, city, crap, and earn. For points, the strongest plays are pacy and pyic — 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 pertinacity turns up 95 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, any, ape, are, and art. For points, the strongest plays are cay, cry, icy, pay, pry, pya, pye, yap, yep, and yip — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertinacity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, ay, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in pertinacity plus one additional letter.
pertinacity 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 pertinacity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
pertinacity is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pertinacity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antipyretic and pertinacity, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pertinacity 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 pertinacity produce 547 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 8 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 52 seven-letter words, 88 six-letter words, 129 five-letter words, 141 four-letter words, 95 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.