Hidden inside prove sit pervo and prove, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pervo and prove tie for the highest Scrabble score from prove at 10 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in prove: one comes from rearranging its letters, and prove itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prove. For points, the strongest plays are pervo and prove — 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 prove produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with over and rope. For points, the strongest play is perv — 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 prove turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are rev 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prove. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, 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 prove and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
prove 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 nine senses for prove. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
prove is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prove unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pervo and prove, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from prove 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 prove produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.