Hidden inside every sit every and veery, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
every and veery tie for the highest Scrabble score from every at 11 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in every: one comes from rearranging its letters, and every itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with every. For points, the strongest plays are every and veery — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in every produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever and very. For points, the strongest play is very — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling every turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve and eye. For points, the strongest plays are eve, eye, rev, rye, vee, and yer — 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in every. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, worth 5 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 every and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
every 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in every carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for every. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
every is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing every unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are every and veery, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from every 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 every produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.