What PERSIST Means
- verb: continue to exist“These stories die hard”
- verb: be persistent, refuse to stop“he persisted to call me every night”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PERSIST is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 E1 R1 S1 I1 S1 T1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of PERSIST (8)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In PERSIST
178 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (28)
5 letter words (51)
4 letter words (54)
3 letter words (33)
2 letter words (12)
Next: the full rack page for these seven tiles, and the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.