Hidden inside solver sit lovers and solver, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SOLVRE, LEVORS or SELVRO and you get the same 6 letters as SOLVER: so the words from SOLVER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
lovers and solver tie for the highest Scrabble score from solver at 9 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in solver: one comes from rearranging its letters, and solver itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lovers. For points, the strongest plays are lovers and solver — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solver. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loser, lover and loves. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including lover, loves and solve.
Rearranging the letters in solver produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lose, love and over. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including love, over and levo.
Unscrambling solver turns up 17 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lev, rev, sev, and voe, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
12 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in solver plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in solver 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.
solver 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 solver. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
solver is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing solver unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lovers and solver, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from solver 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 solver produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.