Hidden inside pervaders sit depravers and pervaders, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 296 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depravers and pervaders tie for the highest Scrabble score from pervaders at 15 points. The top 10 of 296 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in pervaders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pervaders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are depravers and pervaders, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pervaders. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are depraver, depraves, pervader, and pervades, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pervaders produces 18 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 deprave, pervade, and repaved, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pervaders turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearer, erased and served. For points, the strongest play is paveed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pervaders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dears and deers. For points, the strongest plays are paved and vaped — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pervaders produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, dare and dear. For points, the strongest plays are pave, perv, vape, and veep — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pervaders turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape and are. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pervaders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in pervaders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pervaders 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.
pervaders 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.
pervaders is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pervaders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are depravers and pervaders, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pervaders 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 pervaders produce 296 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.