Hidden inside reversals sit reversals and slaverers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 243 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reversals and slaverers tie for the highest Scrabble score from reversals at 12 points. The top 10 of 243 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in reversals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reversals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reversals and slaverers, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reversals. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ravelers, reversal, severals, and slaverer, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reversals produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reveals and several. For points, the strongest plays are laveers, leavers, raveler, reavers, reveals, salvers, servals, servers, several, slavers, sleaves, vealers, versals, and versers — 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 reversals turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erases, lasers, leases, leaves, reveal, selves, and serves. For points, the strongest plays are averse, elvers, laveer, lavers, leaver, leaves, levers, ravels, ravers, reaver, reaves, reveal, revels, revers, salver, salves, savers, selvas, selves, serval, server, serves, severs, slaver, slaves, sleave, valses, vealer, velars, versal, verser, verses, and vessel — 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 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reversals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, elves, erase, laser, lease, leave, and sales. For points, the strongest plays are avers, eaves, elver, elves, laver, laves, leave, levas, lever, ravel, raver, raves, reave, revel, salve, saver, saves, selva, serve, sever, slave, vales, valse, vases, veals, veers, velar, 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 reversals produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, ease, else, eras, ever, eves, and less. For points, the strongest plays are aver, aves, eave, ever, eves, lave, lavs, leva, levs, rave, revs, save, sevs, vale, vars, vase, veal, veer, vees, vela, and vera — 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 reversals turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass, ear, era, eve, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are ave, eve, lav, lev, rev, sev, var, vas, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reversals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, el, er, es, la, 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 reversals and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
reversals 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for reversals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
reversals is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reversals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reversals and slaverers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reversals 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 reversals produce 243 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.