Hidden inside passives sit passives and pavisses, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
passives and pavisses tie for the highest Scrabble score from passives at 13 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in passives: one comes from rearranging its letters, and passives itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are passives and pavisses, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in passives produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are passive, pavises, pavisse, and spavies, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling passives turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with passes. For points, the strongest plays are pavise and spavie — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in passives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, saves, spies, and vases. For points, the strongest plays are paves, pavis, spivs, and vapes — 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 passives produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, pass, peas, pies, save, seas, and sips. For points, the strongest plays are pave, spiv, and vape — 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 passives turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass, pea, pie, sea, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are ave, sev, vas, via, 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 passives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — 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 passives 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.
passives 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 four senses for passives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
passives is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing passives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are passives and pavisses, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from passives 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 passives produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.