Hidden inside inverts sit inverts and striven, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
inverts and striven tie for the highest Scrabble score from inverts at 10 points. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in inverts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and inverts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inverts and striven, 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 inverts turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invest. For points, the strongest plays are invert, invest, rivets, stiver, strive, verist, 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inverts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rents, risen, siren, tires, tries, and veins. For points, the strongest plays are riven, rives, rivet, siver, veins, vents, verst, verts, viers, vines, and vires — 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 inverts produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, rent, rest, rise, sent, and site. For points, the strongest plays are nevi, revs, rive, vein, vent, vert, vest, vets, 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 inverts turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, set, sin, sir, sit, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are rev, sev, vet, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inverts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, in, is, it, ne, re, si, te, and ti — 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 inverts 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.
inverts 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 inverts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
inverts is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing inverts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are inverts and striven, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from inverts 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 inverts produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.