Hidden inside advises sit advises and dissave, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
advises and dissave tie for the highest Scrabble score from advises at 11 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in advises: one comes from rearranging its letters, and advises itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advises. For points, the strongest plays are advises and dissave — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling advises turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advise. For points, the strongest plays are advise, davies, and visaed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in advises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, dives, ideas, saved, saves, sides, and vases. For points, the strongest plays are devas, devis, divas, dives, saved, and vised — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in advises produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, dies, dive, idea, said, save, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are avid, deva, devi, devs, diva, dive, vide, vids, and vied — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling advises turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, ass, die, ids, sad, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in advises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in advises and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
advises 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 1-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 advises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
advises is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing advises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are advises and dissave, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from advises 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 advises produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.