Hidden inside severe sit reeves and severe, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reeves and severe tie for the highest Scrabble score from severe at 9 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in severe: one comes from rearranging its letters, and severe itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with severe. For points, the strongest plays are reeves and severe — 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in severe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with serve. For points, the strongest plays are reeve, serve, sever, veers, and verse — 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 severe produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever and eves. For points, the strongest plays are ever, eves, revs, veer, and vees — 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 severe turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve and see. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, sev, and vee — 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in severe. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er, es, 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.
Swap a single tile in severe and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
severe 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for severe. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
severe is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing severe unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reeves and severe, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from severe 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 severe produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.