Hidden inside relatives sit levirates, relatives, and versatile, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 613 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
levirates, relatives, and versatile tie for the highest Scrabble score from relatives at 12 points. The top 10 of 613 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in relatives: two come from rearranging its letters, and relatives itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relatives. For points, the strongest plays are levirates, relatives, and versatile — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relatives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earliest and relative. For points, the strongest plays are elatives, leaviest, levirate, relative, and vealiest — 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 relatives produces 47 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evilest, relates, reveals, saltier, several, and travels. For points, the strongest plays are elative, estival, evilest, laveers, leavers, leavier, leviers, lievest, raviest, relives, restive, reveals, reviles, revisal, servile, several, sievert, svelter, travels, varlets, vastier, vealers, vealier, veilers, velites, veriest, veritas, verites, and vestral — each 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 relatives turns up 124 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, easier, easter, eviler, leaves, and livers. For points, the strongest plays are aivers, averse, averts, elvers, ervils, everts, eviler, evites, laveer, lavers, leaver, leaves, levers, levier, levies, liever, livers, livest, livres, ravels, reaves, reives, relive, reveal, revels, revest, revets, revile, revise, rivals, rivets, salver, serval, silvae, silver, slaver, sleave, slieve, sliver, starve, stevia, stiver, strive, svelte, travel, traves, valets, valise, varies, varlet, vaster, vealer, veiler, velars, velate, verist, verite, versal, verset, verste, vestal, vilest, and vitals — 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 175 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relatives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alive, alter, elves, erase, and laser. For points, the strongest plays are aiver, alive, avers, avert, eaves, elver, elves, ervil, evert, evils, evite, laver, laves, leave, levas, lever, levis, lieve, liver, lives, livre, ravel, raves, reave, reive, revel, revet, rival, rives, rivet, salve, saver, selva, serve, sever, sieve, silva, siver, slave, stave, trave, vails, vairs, vales, valet, valse, veals, veers, veils, velar, verse, verst, verts, vesta, vials, viers, viler, viral, vires, virls, vista, vitae, vital, and vleis — 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 relatives produces 158 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, last, late, lets, liar, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are aver, aves, lave, lavs, leva, levs, live, rave, revs, rive, save, tavs, vail, vair, vale, vars, vase, vast, vats, veal, veer, vees, veil, vela, vera, vert, vest, vets, vial, vier, vies, vile, virl, visa, vise, vita, vlei, eave, ever, eves, and evil — 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 relatives turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ave, eve, lav, lev, rev, sev, tav, var, vas, vat, vee, vet, via, vie, and vis — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relatives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, is, it, la, li, re, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in relatives plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in relatives 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.
relatives 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 four senses for relatives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
relatives is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relatives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are levirates, relatives, and versatile, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relatives 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 relatives produce 613 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 47 seven-letter words, 124 six-letter words, 175 five-letter words, 158 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.