Hidden inside reserve sit reserve, reveres, reverse and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reserve, reveres, reverse and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from reserve at 10 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in reserve: three come from rearranging its letters, and reserve itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reserve, reverse, and severer. For points, the strongest plays are reserve, reveres, reverse, and severer — 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 reserve turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with severe. For points, the strongest plays are reeves, revere, revers, server, severe, and verser — 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reserve. If a familiar word is all you need, start with serve. For points, the strongest plays are reeve, serve, sever, veers, and verse — 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 reserve produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever and eves. For points, the strongest plays are ever, eves, revs, veer, and vees — 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 reserve turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve and see. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, sev, and vee — 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reserve. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er, es, and re, 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 reserve 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.
reserve 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 eleven senses for reserve. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
reserve is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reserve unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reserve, reveres, reverse, and severer, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reserve 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 reserve produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.