Hidden inside provides sit disprove and provides, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 258 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
disprove and provides tie for the highest Scrabble score from provides at 14 points. The top 10 of 258 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in provides: one comes from rearranging its letters, and provides itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with provides. For points, the strongest plays are disprove and provides — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in provides produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with periods and provide. For points, the strongest play is provide — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling provides turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drives, period, prides, proved, proves, spider, and videos. For points, the strongest plays are proved and vespid — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in provides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dives, dries, drips, drive, drops, drove, and posed. For points, the strongest plays are pervo, pervs, prove, and viper — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in provides produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dips, dive, does, dove, drip, and drop. For points, the strongest plays are perv and spiv — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling provides turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, ids, per, pie, pro, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in provides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 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 provides 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.
provides 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 seven senses for provides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
provides is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing provides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are disprove and provides, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from provides 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 provides produce 258 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.