Hidden inside inverses sit inverses and versines, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
inverses and versines tie for the highest Scrabble score from inverses at 11 points. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in inverses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and inverses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inverses and versines, 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 inverses produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enviers, inverse, revises, veiners, venires, versine, and versins, 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 inverses turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerves, series, serves, and sirens. For points, the strongest plays are envier, envies, nerves, nieves, reives, revise, serves, sevens, severs, sieves, sivers, veiner, venire, verses, and versin — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inverses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerve, never, risen, rises, sense, serve, and seven. For points, the strongest plays are evens, nerve, never, neves, nieve, reive, riven, rives, serve, seven, sever, sieve, siver, veers, veins, verse, viers, vines, vires, and vises — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in inverses produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, ever, eves, rise, seen, sees, and sins. For points, the strongest plays are even, ever, eves, neve, nevi, revs, rive, sevs, veer, vees, vein, vier, vies, vine, vins, and vise — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling inverses turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, see, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, sev, vee, vie, vin, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inverses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, in, is, ne, re, and si — each worth 2 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 inverses 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.
inverses 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 three senses for inverses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
inverses is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing inverses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are inverses and versines, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from inverses 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 inverses produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.