improves needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 225 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
improves is the highest-scoring word from improves, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 225 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in improves — and it is improves itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in improves produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with improve, improvs, and promise. For points, the strongest plays are improve and improvs — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling improves turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with improv, movies, and proves. For points, the strongest play is improv — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in improves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moves, movie, poems, prime, proms, prove, and ropes. For points, the strongest plays are mover, moves, movie, pervo, pervs, prove, viper, and vomer — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in improves produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mops, more, move, over, pies, poem, and pose. For points, the strongest plays are move, perv, spiv, and vims — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling improves turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mop, per, pie, pro, rep, rip, and sip. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 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 improves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, om, op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 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 improves and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
improves 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 two senses for improves. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
improves is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing improves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is improves, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from improves 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 improves produce 225 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.