fervency needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fervency is the highest-scoring word from fervency, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in fervency — and it is fervency itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fervency turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is venery, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fervency. If a familiar word is all you need, start with every, fence, fever, nerve, and never. For points, the strongest plays are every, ferny, fever, feyer, nervy, reefy, 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 fervency produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, ever, free, and very. For points, the strongest play is fyce — 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 fervency turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, eve, eye, fee, and fry. For points, the strongest plays are fey and fry — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fervency. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef, fe, and ye, each 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 fervency 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.
fervency 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 2-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 fervency. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
fervency is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fervency unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fervency, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fervency 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 fervency produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.