Hidden inside reviews sit reviews and viewers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reviews and viewers tie for the highest Scrabble score from reviews at 13 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in reviews: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reviews itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: reviews and viewers, worth 13 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reviews turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with review and viewer. For points, the strongest plays are review, swerve, viewer, and wivers — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reviews. If a familiar word is all you need, start with serve, sewer, views, wires, wiser, and wives. For points, the strongest plays are swive, views, wiver, and wives — 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 reviews produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, eves, rise, view, were, wire, and wise. For points, the strongest plays are view and wive — 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 reviews turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, see, sew, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are eew, eve, ewe, rev, sev, sew, vee, vie, vis, wee, and wis — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reviews. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, is, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 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 reviews 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.
reviews 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 fifteen senses for reviews. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
reviews is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reviews unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reviews and viewers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reviews 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 reviews produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.