Hidden inside datives sit datives and vistaed, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 156 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
datives and vistaed tie for the highest Scrabble score from datives at 11 points. The top 10 of 156 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in datives: one comes from rearranging its letters, and datives itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are datives and vistaed, 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 datives turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advise. For points, the strongest plays are advise, dative, davies, davits, divest, staved, 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in datives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, dates, diets, dives, edits, ideas, and saved. For points, the strongest plays are davit, 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 datives produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, date, dies, diet, dive, east, and eats. 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 datives turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, ate, die, eat, ids, and its. 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in datives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, and it. 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 datives 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.
datives 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 one sense for datives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
datives is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing datives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are datives and vistaed, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from datives 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 datives produce 156 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.