Hidden inside review sit review and viewer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EERIVW, REIVWE or VERWIE and you get the same 6 letters as REVIEW: so the words from REVIEW listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
review and viewer tie for the highest Scrabble score from review at 12 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in review: one comes from rearranging its letters, and review itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: review and viewer, worth 12 points apiece in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in review. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is wiver, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in review produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, view, were, and wire. For points, the strongest plays are view and wive — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in review plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in review and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
review 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record fifteen senses for review. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
review is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing review unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are review and viewer, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from review 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 review produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.