Hidden inside sportive sit overtips, sorptive, and sportive, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 289 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overtips, sorptive, and sportive tie for the highest Scrabble score from sportive at 13 points. The top 10 of 289 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in sportive: two come from rearranging its letters, and sportive itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are overtips, sorptive, and sportive, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sportive produces 6 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 overtip and privets, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sportive turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poster, priest, proves, stripe, and voters. For points, the strongest plays are pervos, pivots, privet, proves, and vipers — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sportive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, prove, riots, ropes, sport, store, and strip. For points, the strongest plays are pervo, pervs, pivot, prove, and viper — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sportive produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with over, pets, pies, pits, poet, pose, and post. For points, the strongest plays are perv and spiv — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sportive turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, per, pet, pie, pit, pot, and pro. For points, the strongest plays are rev, sev, vet, vie, vis, and voe — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sportive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 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 sportive 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.
sportive 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 two senses for sportive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
sportive is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sportive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are overtips, sorptive, and sportive, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sportive 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 sportive produce 289 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.