responsive needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 498 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
responsive is the highest-scoring word from responsive, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 498 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in responsive — and it is responsive itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling responsive turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is overspins, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responsive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with response and versions. For points, the strongest plays are overspin and previses — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in responsive produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with openers, penises and persons. For points, the strongest plays are pensive, previse, vespers, and vespine — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling responsive turns up 110 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerves, noises and opener. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including proven, proves and pervos.
There are 136 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responsive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerve, never and noise. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including prove, pervo and pervs.
Rearranging the letters in responsive produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nope, nose and ones. For points, the strongest plays are perv, spiv, and veep — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling responsive turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, nor and one. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including eve, rev and sev.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responsive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and no. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in responsive plus one additional letter.
responsive 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for responsive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
responsive is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing responsive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is responsive, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from responsive 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 responsive produce 498 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 110 six-letter words, 136 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.