Unscramble PERFORMS and you have 169 words, PERFORMS itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. PERFORMS has 1 anagram here, PREFORMS, scoring 15 like PERFORMS itself. PERFORM and PREFORM are the best of the shorter words, at 14 points. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from PERFORMS by length: 2 with 8 letters, 5 with 7, 12 with 6, 37 with 5, 52 with 4, 44 with 3 and 17 with 2.
Of the 37 5-letter words from PERFORMS, 5 score 10 points, the group's best. FORMS, POEMS and PROSE are the ones most people know.
7 of 52 4-letter words in PERFORMS tie at 9 points; none scores more. MORE, SOME and FORM will look familiar.
EMF, FEM and FOP share the top score of 8 among the 3-letter words made with PERFORMS letters. PRO, ERR and ORE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of PERFORMS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PE · ending in MS · all 8-letter words
PERFORMS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
PERFORMS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERFORMS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 169) | 139 | 167 | 133 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 28 of them: FERMS, FOMES, FERM, PREMS, ORFES, PORERS, PREM, PRORES, FROS, MOERS, ORFE, ORFS and 16 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: EMOS, FES, EMO, FE, MES, POS, SOM and PO. Scrabble US and Scrabble UK skip 2 of them: EMFS and EMF.