Hidden inside providers sit disprover and providers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 305 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
disprover and providers tie for the highest Scrabble score from providers at 15 points. The top 10 of 305 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in providers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and providers 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 disprover and providers, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in providers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with provides. For points, the strongest plays are disprove, provider, and provides — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in providers produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drivers, periods, and provide. For points, the strongest play is provide — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling providers turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driver, drives, orders, period, prides, proved, and proves. For points, the strongest plays are proved and vespid — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in providers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dives, drier, dries, drips, drive, drops, and drove. For points, the strongest plays are pervo, pervs, prove, and viper — 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 providers produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dips, dive, does, dove, drip, and drop. For points, the strongest plays are perv and spiv — 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 providers turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, ids, per, pie, pro, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in providers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in providers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in providers 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.
providers 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 two senses for providers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
providers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing providers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are disprover and providers, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from providers 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 providers produce 305 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.