Hidden inside reinvests sit reinvests and sirventes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 352 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reinvests and sirventes tie for the highest Scrabble score from reinvests at 12 points. The top 10 of 352 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in reinvests: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reinvests 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 reinvests and sirventes, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reinvests. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inverses, nerviest, reinvest and 4 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reinvests produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, invests, and resents. For points, 23 words tie at 10 points, including invests, enviers and inverse.
Unscrambling reinvests turns up 82 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire and events. For points, 31 words tie at 9 points, including events, invest and nerves.
There are 95 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reinvests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, event and nerve. For points, 29 words tie at 8 points, including event, nerve and never.
Rearranging the letters in reinvests produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, ever and eves. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including even, ever and eves.
Unscrambling reinvests turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, its and net. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including eve, vet and rev.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reinvests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and it.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reinvests plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reinvests 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.
reinvests 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.
reinvests is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reinvests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reinvests and sirventes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reinvests 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 reinvests produce 352 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 82 six-letter words, 95 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.