Hidden inside slieve sit levies and slieve, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
levies and slieve tie for the highest Scrabble score from slieve at 9 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in slieve: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slieve itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are levies and slieve, 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slieve. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves and lives. For points, the strongest plays are elves, evils, levis, lieve, lives, sieve, veils, and vleis — 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 slieve produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, eves, evil, lies, live, and vile. For points, the strongest plays are eves, evil, levs, live, vees, veil, vies, vile, vise, and vlei — 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 slieve turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, lie, and see. For points, the strongest plays are eve, lev, sev, vee, vie, and vis — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slieve. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, is, li, and si — 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 slieve 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.
slieve is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
slieve is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slieve unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are levies and slieve, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slieve 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 slieve produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.