Hidden inside restive sit restive, sievert, veriest and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
restive, sievert, veriest and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from restive at 10 points. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in restive: three come from rearranging its letters, and restive itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are restive, sievert, veriest, and verites, 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 restive turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are everts, evites, reives, revest, revets, revise, rivets, stiver, strive, verist, verite, verset, and verste, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with serve, steer, tires, trees, and tries. For points, the strongest plays are evert, evite, reive, revet, rives, rivet, serve, sever, sieve, siver, veers, verse, verst, verts, viers, and vires — 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 restive produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, eves, rest, rise, site, stir, and ties. For points, the strongest plays are ever, eves, revs, rive, veer, vees, vert, vest, vets, vier, vies, 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 restive turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, its, see, set, sir, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, sev, vee, vet, vie, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, is, it, re, 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 restive 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.
restive 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 two senses for restive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
restive is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing restive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are restive, sievert, veriest, and verites, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from restive 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 restive produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.