grievously needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 438 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grievously is the highest-scoring word from grievously, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 438 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in grievously — and it is grievously itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grievously. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grievous, rugosely, and virgules, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grievously produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glories and lousier. For points, the strongest plays are livyers, silvery, and voyeurs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grievously turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gloves, livers, lovers, olives, orgies, silver, and surely. For points, the strongest plays are livery, livyer, loveys, overly, survey, verily, volery, and voyeur — 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 123 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grievously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girls, gives, glory, glove, glues, liver, and lives. For points, the strongest plays are grovy and gyves — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grievously produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with legs, lies, live, logs, lose, love, and lure. For points, the strongest play is gyve — 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 grievously turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, guy, leg, lie, log, oil, and our. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 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 grievously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, is, or, oy, so, us, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
grievously 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 3-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 grievously. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
grievously is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grievously unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is grievously, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from grievously 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 grievously produce 438 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 123 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.