severity needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
severity is the highest-scoring word from severity, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in severity — and it is severity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in severity produces 4 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 restive, sievert, veriest, and verites, 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 severity turns up 20 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are severy, verity, and vestry, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in severity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with every, serve, steer, tires, trees, and tries. For points, the strongest plays are every and veery — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in severity produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, eves, eyes, rest, rise, site, and stir. For points, the strongest plays are tivy and very — 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 severity turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, eye, its, see, set, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 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 severity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in severity plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in severity and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
severity 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in severity carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for severity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
severity is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing severity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is severity, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from severity 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 severity produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.