interviews needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 418 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
interviews is the highest-scoring word from interviews, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 418 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in interviews — and it is interviews itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling interviews turns up 3 nine-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: interview, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interviews. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is viewiest, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in interviews produces 42 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, invites and reviews. For points, the strongest plays are reviews, viewers, viewier, and wiverns — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling interviews turns up 84 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire and events. For points, 7 words tie at 12 points, including review, viewer and swerve.
There are 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interviews. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, event and nerve. For points, the strongest plays are swive, views, wiver, and wives — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in interviews produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, ever and eves. For points, the strongest plays are view and wive — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling interviews turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, its and net. For points, 19 words tie at 6 points, including eve, new and sew.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interviews. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
interviews 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 five senses for interviews. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
interviews is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing interviews unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is interviews, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from interviews 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 interviews produce 418 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 42 seven-letter words, 84 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.