invaders needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 341 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
invaders is the highest-scoring word from invaders, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 341 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in invaders — and it is invaders itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in invaders produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invades. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including invades, adviser and invader.
Unscrambling invaders turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advise, diners and drains. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including advise, driven and drives.
There are 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in invaders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside and dares. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including dives, drive and saved.
Rearranging the letters in invaders produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and dare. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including dive, avid and deva.
Unscrambling invaders turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in invaders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in invaders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in invaders 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.
invaders 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 one sense for invaders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
invaders is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing invaders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is invaders, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from invaders 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 invaders produce 341 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.