Hidden inside received sit deceiver and received, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deceiver and received tie for the highest Scrabble score from received at 14 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in received: one comes from rearranging its letters, and received itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with received. For points, the strongest plays are deceiver and received — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in received produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with receive. For points, the strongest play is deceive — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling received turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with device. For points, the strongest plays are cervid and device — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in received. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried and drive. For points, the strongest play is viced — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in received produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dice and dive. For points, the strongest play is vice — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling received turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, eve and ice. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in received plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in received 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.
received 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 received. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
received is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing received unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deceiver and received, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from received 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 received produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.