Hidden inside several sit laveers, leavers, reveals and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
laveers, leavers, reveals and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from several at 10 points. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in several: four come from rearranging its letters, and several itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reveals and several. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including reveals, several and laveers.
Unscrambling several turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaves and reveal. For points, 18 words tie at 9 points, including leaves, reveal and averse.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in several. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves, erase and laser. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including elves, leave and serve.
Rearranging the letters in several produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, ease and else. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including ever, eves and save.
Unscrambling several turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear and era. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including eve, ave and lav.
14 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in several plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in several and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
several 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 three senses for several. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
several is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing several unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are laveers, leavers, reveals, several, and vealers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from several 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 several produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.