Hidden inside strive sit rivets, stiver, strive and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rivets, stiver, strive and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from strive at 9 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in strive: three come from rearranging its letters, and strive itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rivets, stiver, strive, and verist, 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tires and tries. For points, the strongest plays are rives, rivet, siver, verst, verts, viers, and vires — 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 strive produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rise, site, stir, ties, tire, and vest. For points, the strongest plays are revs, rive, vert, vest, vets, vier, vies, and vise — 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 strive turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, set, sir, sit, tie, and vet. For points, the strongest plays are rev, sev, vet, vie, and vis — 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 strive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, is, it, re, si, te, and ti — 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 strive and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
strive 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 two senses for strive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
strive is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rivets, stiver, strive, and verist, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strive 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 strive produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.