Hidden inside hives sit hives and shive, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 22 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hives and shive tie for the highest Scrabble score from hives at 11 points. The top 10 of 22 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in hives: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hives itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hives and shive, 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 hives produces 5 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hive and shiv, 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 hives turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his and she. For points, the strongest plays are hes, hie, his, sev, she, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — 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 hives and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
hives 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in hives carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for hives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
hives is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hives and shive, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hives 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 hives produce 22 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.