208 words come out when you unscramble PERVIOUS, starting with PERVIOUS itself: 13 in Scrabble, 16 in Words With Friends. PERVIOUS has 2 anagrams here, PREVIOUS and VIPEROUS, scoring 13 like PERVIOUS itself. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from PERVIOUS by length: 3 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 14 with 6, 51 with 5, 60 with 4, 58 with 3 and 19 with 2.
Among 51 5-letter words from PERVIOUS, the top score is 10, reached by 5. SUPER, VIRUS and PROVE are the familiar ones.
PERV, SPIV and VOIP share the top score of 9 among the 4-letter words made with PERVIOUS letters. OVER, EURO and PURE are the ones most people know.
Among 58 3-letter words you get when you unscramble PERVIOUS, the top score is 6, reached by 8. USE, PRO and UPS are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of PERVIOUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PE · ending in US · all 8-letter words
What PERVIOUS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PERVIOUS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERVIOUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 208) | 164 | 208 | 150 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 44 of them: VOIPS, POURIES, VIROSE, VIROUS, VOIP, POURIE, SOUPER, VROUS, EPRIS, EVOS, PUERS, PURES and 32 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: PERVOS, PERVO, PERVS, PERV, ERUVS, ESPOIR, POSIER, ERUV, SEV, URPS, POS, URP and 2 more.
With one more tile, the letters of PERVIOUS spell the words below.