Hidden inside converse sit conserve and converse, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
conserve and converse tie for the highest Scrabble score from converse at 13 points. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in converse: one comes from rearranging its letters, and converse itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are conserve and converse, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in converse produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is corvees, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling converse turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with covers, nerves, and screen. For points, the strongest plays are corvee, corves, covens, and covers — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in converse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cones, cores, corns, cover, nerve, never, and ovens. For points, the strongest plays are coven, cover, coves, and voces — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in converse produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, cons, core, corn, even, ever, and eves. For points, the strongest play is cove — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling converse turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, eve, nor, one, see, and son. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, sev, vee, and voe — each worth 6 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 converse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, ne, no, oe, on, or, os, re, and so — each worth 2 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 converse and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
converse 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 four senses for converse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
converse is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing converse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are conserve and converse, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from converse 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 converse produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.