Hidden inside invites sit invites and viniest, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
invites and viniest tie for the highest Scrabble score from invites at 10 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in invites: one comes from rearranging its letters, and invites itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invites. For points, the strongest plays are invites and viniest — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling invites turns up 3 six-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: invest and invite, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in invites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with veins and visit. For points, the strongest plays are ivies, veins, vents, vines, and visit — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in invites produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, sent, site, ties, tins, and vein. For points, the strongest plays are nevi, vein, vent, vest, vets, vies, vine, vins, and vise — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling invites turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, set, sin, sit, ten, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are sev, vet, vie, vin, and vis — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in invites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are en, es, et, in, is, it, ne, si, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in invites and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
invites 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 nine senses for invites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
invites is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing invites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are invites and viniest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from invites 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 invites produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.