Hidden inside version sit enviros, renvois, and version, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enviros, renvois, and version tie for the highest Scrabble score from version at 10 points. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in version: two come from rearranging its letters, and version itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with version. For points, the strongest plays are enviros, renvois, and version — 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 version turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with senior. For points, the strongest plays are enviro, envois, ovines, renvoi, versin, and vireos — 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in version. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons, noise, ovens, risen, siren, and veins. For points, the strongest plays are envoi, ovens, overs, ovine, riven, rives, roven, roves, servo, siver, veins, verso, viers, vines, vinos, vireo, vires, and visor — 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 version produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with iron, nose, ones, oven, over, rise, and rose. For points, the strongest plays are nevi, oven, over, revs, rive, rove, vein, vier, vies, vine, vino, vins, vise, and voes — 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 version turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, one, sin, sir, and son. For points, the strongest plays are rev, sev, vie, vin, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in version. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, in, is, ne, no, oe, oi, on, or, os, re, si, and so — 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 version 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.
version 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 six senses for version. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
version is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing version unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enviros, renvois, and version, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from version 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 version produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.