Hidden inside grieves sit grieves and regives, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grieves and regives tie for the highest Scrabble score from grieves at 11 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in grieves: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grieves itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grieves and regives, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grieves turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are givers, grieve, regive, vegies, and verges, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grieves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gives and serve. For points, the strongest plays are giver, gives, veges, vegie, and verge — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grieves produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, eves, give, rigs, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are give and vigs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grieves turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, gee, rig, see, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grieves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 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 grieves 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.
grieves 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 two senses for grieves. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
grieves is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grieves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grieves and regives, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grieves 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 grieves produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.