successive needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
successive is the highest-scoring word from successive, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in successive — and it is successive itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in successive produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: success, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling successive turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issues. For points, the strongest plays are cuvees and viscus — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in successive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issue. For points, the strongest plays are cuvee and vices — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in successive produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, eves and ices. For points, the strongest play is vice — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling successive turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, eve and ice. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including eve, sev and vee.
successive 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 4-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 successive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
successive is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing successive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is successive, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from successive 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 successive produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.