Hidden inside relieving sit inveigler and relieving, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
inveigler and relieving tie for the highest Scrabble score from relieving at 13 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in relieving: one comes from rearranging its letters, and relieving itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relieving. For points, the strongest plays are inveigler and relieving — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relieving. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inveigle, levering, livering, reliving, reveling, and reviling, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in relieving produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reeving, regiven, reiving, veering, veiling, and veliger, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling relieving turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eviler, living, and virgin. For points, the strongest plays are grieve, living, regive, riving, and virgin — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relieving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, given, green, liver, nerve, never, and viler. For points, the strongest plays are given, giver, vegie, venge, verge, and vigil — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in relieving produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, ever, evil, gene, girl, give, and line. For points, the strongest play is give — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling relieving turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, gee, leg, lie, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relieving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in relieving plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in relieving 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.
relieving 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
relieving is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relieving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are inveigler and relieving, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relieving 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 relieving produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.