prevention needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 293 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
prevention is the highest-scoring word from prevention, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 293 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in prevention — and it is prevention itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prevention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inventor. For points, the strongest plays are inventer, inventor, and reinvent — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in prevention produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prevent. For points, the strongest plays are overtip and prevent — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling prevention turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entire, intern and invent. For points, the strongest plays are privet and proven — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prevention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, event and inner. For points, the strongest plays are pervo, pivot, prove, and viper — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in prevention produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, ever and into. For points, the strongest plays are perv and veep — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling prevention turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, net and nor. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including eve, vet and rev.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prevention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and no. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in prevention plus one additional letter.
prevention 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 one sense for prevention. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
prevention is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prevention unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is prevention, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from prevention 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 prevention produce 293 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.