Hidden inside lievest sit evilest, lievest, and velites, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
evilest, lievest, and velites tie for the highest Scrabble score from lievest at 10 points. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in lievest: two come from rearranging its letters, and lievest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evilest. For points, the strongest plays are evilest, lievest, and velites — 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 lievest turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with vilest. For points, the strongest plays are evites, levies, livest, slieve, svelte, and vilest — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lievest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves, lives, and steel. For points, the strongest plays are elves, evils, evite, levis, lieve, lives, sieve, veils, and vleis — 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 lievest produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, eves, evil, lets, lies, list, and live. For points, the strongest plays are eves, evil, levs, live, vees, veil, vest, vets, vies, vile, vise, and vlei — 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 lievest turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, its, let, lie, lit, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are eve, lev, sev, vee, vet, vie, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lievest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, et, is, it, li, 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 lievest 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.
lievest 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.
lievest is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lievest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are evilest, lievest, and velites, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lievest 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 lievest produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.