Hidden inside revenue sit revenue and unreeve, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble VUEEENR, EENUVER or NUERVEE and you get the same 7 letters as REVENUE: so the words from REVENUE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
revenue and unreeve tie for the highest Scrabble score from revenue at 10 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in revenue: one comes from rearranging its letters, and revenue 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 revenue and unreeve, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in revenue. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerve and never. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including nerve, never and reeve.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in revenue. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are en, er, ne and 3 more, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in revenue plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in revenue 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.
revenue 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 two senses for revenue. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
revenue is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing revenue unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are revenue and unreeve, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from revenue 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 revenue produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.