Hidden inside manoeuvres sit manoeuvers and manoeuvres, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 520 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
manoeuvers and manoeuvres tie for the highest Scrabble score from manoeuvres at 15 points. The top 10 of 520 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in manoeuvres: one comes from rearranging its letters, and manoeuvres itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are manoeuvers and manoeuvres, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling manoeuvres turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are maneuvers, manoeuver, and manoeuvre, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manoeuvres. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are maneuver, overmans, venomers, and verseman, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in manoeuvres produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with avenues, manures and measure. For points, the strongest plays are overman, overmen, removes, and venomer — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling manoeuvres turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with avenue, manure and meaner. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including remove, mauves and mavens.
There are 145 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manoeuvres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, earns and erase. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including moves, mauve and maven.
Rearranging the letters in manoeuvres produces 152 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, anus and arms. For points, the strongest plays are move and ovum — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling manoeuvres turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ear. For points, the strongest play is vum — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in manoeuvres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in manoeuvres plus one additional letter.
manoeuvres 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for manoeuvres. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
manoeuvres is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing manoeuvres unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are manoeuvers and manoeuvres, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from manoeuvres 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 manoeuvres produce 520 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 145 five-letter words, 152 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.