Hidden inside servitude sit divesture and servitude, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 327 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
divesture and servitude tie for the highest Scrabble score from servitude at 13 points. The top 10 of 327 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in servitude: one comes from rearranging its letters, and servitude itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are divesture and servitude, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling servitude produces exactly one eight-letter word: vestured. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in servitude produces 24 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are derives, deviser, diverse and 4 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling servitude turns up 60 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, desire and driest. For points, 15 words tie at 10 points, including drives, served and derive.
There are 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in servitude. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diets and dives. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including dives, drive and devis.
Rearranging the letters in servitude produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies and diet. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including dive, devi and devs.
Unscrambling servitude turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due and eve. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in servitude. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in servitude plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in servitude and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
servitude 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 one sense for servitude. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
servitude is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing servitude unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are divesture and servitude, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from servitude 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 servitude produce 327 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 24 seven-letter words, 60 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.