Hidden inside versants sit servants and versants, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 231 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
servants and versants tie for the highest Scrabble score from versants at 11 points. The top 10 of 231 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in versants: one comes from rearranging its letters, and versants itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with servants. For points, the strongest plays are servants and versants — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in versants produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with servant, starves, and taverns. For points, the strongest plays are servant, starves, taverns, and versant — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling versants turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sanest, stares and starve. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including starve, staves and tavern.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in versants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, nests and rates. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including saves, vases and vests.
Rearranging the letters in versants produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts and earn. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including save, vans and vase.
Unscrambling versants turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are and art. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including van, vet and ave.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in versants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, 14 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in versants plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in versants 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.
versants 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 versants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
versants is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing versants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are servants and versants, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from versants 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 versants produce 231 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.