Hidden inside scurvies sit cursives and scurvies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cursives and scurvies tie for the highest Scrabble score from scurvies at 13 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in scurvies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and scurvies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cursives and scurvies, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scurvies produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cruises and viruses. For points, the strongest plays are cursive and scrives — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scurvies turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crises, cruise, curses, and versus. For points, the strongest plays are curves, scrive, and viscus — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scurvies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, cures, curse, issue, rices, rises, and virus. For points, the strongest plays are curve and vices — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scurvies produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, cure, ices, rice, rise, sirs, and sues. For points, the strongest play is vice — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scurvies turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, ice, sir, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are rev, sev, 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scurvies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and us. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, is, re, si, and us — 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 scurvies and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
scurvies 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for scurvies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
scurvies is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scurvies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cursives and scurvies, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scurvies 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 scurvies produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.