ourselves needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 217 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ourselves is the highest-scoring word from ourselves, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 217 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ourselves — and it is ourselves itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ourselves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resolves. For points, the strongest plays are overuses and resolves — 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 ourselves produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resolve. For points, the strongest plays are evulses, louvers, louvres, oeuvres, overuse, resolve, slurves, solvers, velours, and velures — 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 ourselves turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losers, louses, lovers, selves, serves, solves, and versus. For points, the strongest plays are elvers, evulse, levers, louver, louvre, lovers, oeuvre, ovules, revels, revues, selves, serves, servos, severs, slurve, soever, solver, solves, velour, velure, verses, versos, versus, and vessel — 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 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ourselves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves, loser, loses, louse, lover, loves, and lures. For points, the strongest plays are elver, elves, eruvs, lever, lover, loves, overs, ovule, revel, revue, roves, serve, servo, sever, solve, veers, verse, verso, and voles — 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 ourselves produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, ever, eves, less, lose, loss, and love. For points, the strongest plays are eruv, ever, eves, levo, levs, love, luvs, over, revs, rove, sevs, veer, vees, voes, and vole — 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 ourselves turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, our, see, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are eve, lev, luv, rev, sev, vee, and voe — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ourselves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, lo, oe, or, os, re, so, and us — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ourselves plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ourselves and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
ourselves 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for ourselves. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
ourselves is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ourselves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ourselves, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ourselves 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 ourselves produce 217 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.