provisory needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
provisory is the highest-scoring word from provisory, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in provisory — and it is provisory itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling provisory produces exactly one seven-letter word: proviso. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in provisory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorry. For points, the strongest play is privy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in provisory produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oops, poor and poos. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including posy, pyro and ropy.
Unscrambling provisory turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poo, pro and rip. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in provisory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, or and oy. For points, the strongest plays are oy and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
provisory 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 1-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 provisory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
provisory is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing provisory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is provisory, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from provisory 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 provisory produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.