improve needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
improve is the highest-scoring word from improve, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in improve — and it is improve itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling improve turns up 2 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in improve. If a familiar word is all you need, start with movie, prime, and prove. For points, the strongest plays are mover, movie, pervo, 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 improve produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with more, move, over, poem, prom, and rope. For points, the strongest plays are move and perv — 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 improve turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mop, per, pie, pro, rep, and rip. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in improve. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me and or. 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 improve 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.
improve 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 improve. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
improve is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing improve unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is improve, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from improve 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 improve produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.