Hidden inside servant sit servant, taverns, and versant, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 180 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
servant, taverns, and versant tie for the highest Scrabble score from servant at 10 points. The top 10 of 180 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in servant: two come from rearranging its letters, and servant itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with servant and taverns. For points, the strongest plays are servant, taverns, and versant — 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 servant turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starve and tavern. For points, the strongest plays are averts, ravens, starve, tavern, traves, and vaster — 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in servant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, rates, rents, saner, stare, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are avens, avers, avert, naves, raven, raves, saver, stave, trave, vanes, vents, verst, verts, and vesta — 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 servant produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, earn, ears, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are aver, aves, nave, navs, rave, revs, save, tavs, vane, vans, vars, vase, vast, vats, vena, vent, vera, vert, vest, and vets — 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 servant turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ave, nav, rev, sev, tav, van, var, vas, vat, and vet — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in servant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, na, ne, re, ta, and te — 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 servant 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.
servant 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 two senses for servant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
servant is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing servant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are servant, taverns, and versant, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from servant 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 servant produce 180 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.