Hidden inside elevenses sit elevenses and sleeveens, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elevenses and sleeveens tie for the highest Scrabble score from elevenses at 12 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in elevenses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and elevenses 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 elevenses and sleeveens, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling elevenses produces exactly one eight-letter word: sleeveen. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in elevenses produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: elevens and sleeves, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling elevenses turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eleven, selves, and sleeve. For points, the strongest plays are eleven, levees, selves, sevens, sleeve, and vessel — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elevenses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves, sense, and seven. For points, the strongest plays are elven, elves, evens, levee, neves, and seven — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in elevenses produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, even, eves, less, seen, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are even, eves, levs, neve, sevs, and vees — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling elevenses turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve and see. For points, the strongest plays are eve, lev, sev, and vee — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elevenses. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are el, en, es, and ne, 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 elevenses 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.
elevenses 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.
elevenses is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing elevenses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elevenses and sleeveens, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from elevenses 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 elevenses produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.