provosts needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
provosts is the highest-scoring word from provosts, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in provosts — and it is provosts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling provosts produces exactly one seven-letter word: provost. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling provosts turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sports and troops. For points, the strongest plays are prosos, sopors, spoors, sports, stoops, strops, and troops — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in provosts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posts, roots, sorts, sport, spots, stops, and troop. For points, the strongest plays are ports, posts, proso, pross, prost, sopor, spoor, sport, spots, stoop, stops, strop, topos, and troop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in provosts produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oops, poor, poos, post, pots, pros, and psst. For points, the strongest plays are oops, opts, poor, poos, port, post, pots, pros, psst, sops, spot, stop, topo, tops, and trop — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling provosts turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poo, pot, pro, too, and top. For points, the strongest plays are ops, opt, poo, pos, pot, pro, pst, sop, and top — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in provosts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op 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 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in provosts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in provosts and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
provosts 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 one sense for provosts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
provosts is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing provosts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is provosts, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from provosts 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 provosts produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.