Unscramble PIERST to get 126 words. PIERST itself is a real word: 8 points on a Scrabble board, 9 in Words With Friends. It has 8 anagrams at 8 points each, among them ESPRIT, PIERTS and PRIEST. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from PIERST split into 9 with 6 letters, 32 with 5, 42 with 4, 31 with 3 and 12 with 2.
32 5-letter words in PIERST; 25 of them share the top score of 7. STRIP, TRIPS and TRIES are everyday picks.
Of the 42 4-letter words from PIERST, 23 score 6 points, the group's best. SITE, TIPS and STEP are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of PIERST but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with PI · ending in ST · all 6-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by ESPRIT, PRIEST, RIPEST, SITREP, SPRITE, STRIPE and TRIPES (8 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts PIERST, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIERST itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 126) | 100 | 125 | 93 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PIERST, PIERTS, EPRIS, PERST, PERTS, PETRI, PIERT, PIETS, PIET, PIRS, PISE, RIPT and 13 more, 25 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SITREP, PST, RESIT, TRES, EST, TES and TE, 7 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
These 12 words take every letter of PIERST plus a single extra one.