reversion needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 232 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reversion is the highest-scoring word from reversion, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 232 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in reversion — and it is reversion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reversion. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eversion and verniers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reversion produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with version. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including version, enviers and enviros.
Unscrambling reversion turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerves, rivers, and senior. For points, 24 words tie at 9 points, including nerves, rivers and envier.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reversion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons, nerve and never. For points, 32 words tie at 8 points, including nerve, never and ovens.
Rearranging the letters in reversion produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, ever and eves. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including even, ever and eves.
Unscrambling reversion turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, nor and one. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including eve, rev and sev.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reversion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and no. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and no.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reversion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reversion 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.
reversion 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 six senses for reversion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
reversion is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reversion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is reversion, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from reversion 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 reversion produce 232 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.