Hidden inside traverse sit averters and traverse, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
averters and traverse tie for the highest Scrabble score from traverse at 11 points. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in traverse: one comes from rearranging its letters, and traverse 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 averters and traverse, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in traverse produces 7 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 averter, reavers, reverts, and starver, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling traverse turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter, rarest, and starve. For points, the strongest plays are averse, averts, everts, ravers, reaver, reaves, revers, revert, revest, revets, server, starve, traves, vaster, verser, verset, and verste — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traverse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, rates, serve, stare, steer, tears, and tease. For points, the strongest plays are avers, avert, eaves, evert, raver, raves, reave, revet, saver, serve, sever, stave, trave, veers, verse, verst, verts, and vesta — 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 traverse produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, and ever. For points, the strongest plays are aver, aves, eave, ever, eves, rave, revs, save, tavs, vars, vase, vast, vats, veer, vees, vera, vert, vest, and vets — 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 traverse turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and eve. For points, the strongest plays are ave, eve, rev, sev, tav, var, vas, vat, vee, and vet — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traverse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta, and te — 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 traverse 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.
traverse 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for traverse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
traverse is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing traverse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are averters and traverse, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from traverse 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 traverse produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.