Hidden inside reversing sit reserving and reversing, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 238 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reserving and reversing tie for the highest Scrabble score from reversing at 13 points. The top 10 of 238 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in reversing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reversing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: reserving and reversing, worth 13 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reversing. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grievers, revering, and severing, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reversing produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with serving. For points, the strongest plays are griever, grieves, reeving, regiven, regives, serving, veering, vergers, versing, and virgers — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reversing turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerves, rivers, seeing, and singer. For points, the strongest plays are givens, givers, grieve, regive, vegies, venges, verger, verges, and virger — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reversing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genes, given, gives, green, nerve, never, and rings. For points, the strongest plays are given, giver, gives, veges, vegie, venge, and verge — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reversing produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, ever, eves, gene, give, rigs, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are give and vigs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reversing turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, gee, rig, see, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 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 reversing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in reversing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reversing 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.
reversing 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.
reversing is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reversing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reserving and reversing, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reversing 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 reversing produce 238 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.