Hidden inside grieven sit reeving, regiven, and veering, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
GRIEVEN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to REEVING, REGIVEN and VEERING.
reeving, regiven, and veering tie for the highest Scrabble score from grieven at 11 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in grieven produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reeving, regiven, and veering, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grieven turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grieve and regive, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grieven. If a familiar word is all you need, start with given, green, nerve, and never. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including given, giver and vegie.
Rearranging the letters in grieven produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, ever and gene. For points, the strongest play is give — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grieven turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, gee, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in grieven plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in grieven 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reeving, regiven, and veering, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grieven 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 grieven produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.