Hidden inside adventure sit adventure and unaverted, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 273 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adventure and unaverted tie for the highest Scrabble score from adventure at 13 points. The top 10 of 273 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in adventure: one comes from rearranging its letters, and adventure itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adventure. For points, the strongest plays are adventure and unaverted — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adventure. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ventured, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in adventure produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with veteran. For points, the strongest plays are averted, ravened, vaunted, and verdant — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling adventure turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with avenue, earned and nature. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including advent, advert and evader.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adventure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, enter and event. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including daven, deave and drave.
Rearranging the letters in adventure produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, dare and date. For points, the strongest plays are deva and vend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling adventure turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and are. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adventure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in adventure plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in adventure and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
adventure 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for adventure. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
adventure is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adventure unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adventure and unaverted, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from adventure 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 adventure produce 273 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.