Hidden inside serving sit serving and versing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
serving and versing tie for the highest Scrabble score from serving at 11 points. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in serving: one comes from rearranging its letters, and serving itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with serving. For points, the strongest plays are serving and versing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling serving turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with singer. For points, the strongest plays are givens and givers — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in serving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with given, gives, rings, risen, siren, and veins. For points, the strongest plays are given, giver, and gives — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in serving produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with give, rigs, ring, rise, sign, sing, and vein. For points, the strongest plays are give and vigs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling serving turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rig, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 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 serving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 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 serving 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.
serving 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 serving. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
serving is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing serving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are serving and versing, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from serving 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 serving produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.