Hidden inside converses sit conserves and converses, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
conserves and converses tie for the highest Scrabble score from converses at 14 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in converses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and converses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are conserves and converses, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in converses. 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 converses produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with screens. For points, the strongest play 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 converses turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with covers, nerves, recess, scenes, scores, screen, and serves. 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 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in converses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cones, cores, corns, cover, cross, nerve, and never. 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 converses produces 56 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 converses turns up 38 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 converses. 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in converses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in converses 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.
converses 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 converses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
converses is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing converses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are conserves and converses, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from converses 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 converses produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.