provender needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 155 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
provender is the highest-scoring word from provender, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 155 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in provender — and it is provender itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in provender. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is reproved, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in provender produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is reprove, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling provender turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opened, opener, proved, and proven. For points, the strongest play is proved — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in provender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drove, nerve and never. For points, the strongest plays are pervo and prove — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in provender produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and done. For points, the strongest plays are perv and veep — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling provender turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, eve and nor. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in provender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in provender plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in provender 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.
provender 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 two senses for provender. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
provender is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing provender unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is provender, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from provender 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 provender produce 155 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.