severances needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 293 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
severances is the highest-scoring word from severances, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 293 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in severances — and it is severances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling severances turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are evanesces and severance, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in severances. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crevasse and evanesce, 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 severances produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with essence, scarves, and screens. For points, the strongest plays are caverns, cravens, and scarves — 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 severances turns up 60 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carves, ceases, erases, evener, nerves, recess, and scares. For points, the strongest plays are carven, carves, cavern, cavers, craven, craves, and varecs — 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 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in severances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carve, cases, caves, cease, earns, and eases. For points, the strongest plays are carve, caver, caves, crave, and varec — 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 severances produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, care, cars, case, cave, earn, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are cave and vacs — each 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 severances turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass, can, car, ear, era, and eve. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in severances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, as, en, er, es, na, ne, and re — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
severances 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 severances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
severances is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing severances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is severances, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from severances 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 severances produce 293 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 60 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.