alternatives needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1562 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alternatives is the highest-scoring word from alternatives, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1562 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in alternatives — and it is alternatives itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eleven-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alternatives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alternative. For points, the strongest plays are alternative and translative — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alternatives produces 6 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are intervales and ventilates, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alternatives turns up 39 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relatives and translate. For points, the strongest plays are aestivate, anteverts, aventails, intervale, intervals, invertase, levanters, levirates, levitates, relatives, tervalent, trivalent, valerates, valerians, varietals, ventilate, veritates, and versatile — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 117 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alternatives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earliest, entitles, interest, relative, relevant, silenter, and veterans. For points, the strongest plays are aestival, antevert, aventail, elatives, enslaver, estivate, interval, leaviest, levanter, levirate, levitate, liveners, naivetes, navettes, nerviest, ravelins, ravenest, reavails, reinvest, relative, relevant, salivate, sanative, sirvente, sniveler, tavernas, travails, tsarevna, valerate, valerian, valiants, variants, variates, varietal, vaseline, vealiest, veinlets, ventails, ventrals, and veterans — 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 alternatives produces 239 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, entitle, entries, eternal, evilest, letters, and naivest. For points, the strongest plays are alevins, atavist, aviates, elative, enslave, enviers, estival, evilest, inverse, inverts, laveers, leavens, leavers, leavier, levants, leviers, lievest, livener, naivest, naivete, natives, navette, nervate, ravelin, raviest, ravines, reavail, relives, restive, reveals, reviles, revisal, savarin, servant, servile, several, sievert, silvern, stative, striven, svelter, taverna, taverns, tensive, travail, travels, trevets, trivets, vainest, valiant, valines, vanitas, variant, variate, varlets, vastier, vealers, vealier, veilers, veiners, veinlet, velaria, velites, venires, ventail, venters, ventral, veriest, veritas, verites, versant, versine, vestral, veteran, vetters, and vittles — 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 alternatives turns up 371 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starve, street, talent, tavern, tenser, titles, and trails. For points, the strongest plays are starve, stevia, stiver, strive, svelte, tavern, travel, traves, trevet, trivet, aivers, alevin, alvars, alvine, anvils, avails, averse, averts, avians, aviate, elvers, envier, envies, ervils, events, everts, eviler, evites, invars, invert, invest, larvae, larvas, laveer, lavers, leaven, leaver, leaves, levant, levers, levier, levies, levins, liever, livens, livers, livest, livres, naiver, naives, native, navars, navels, navies, nerves, nieves, ravels, ravens, ravine, ravins, reaves, reives, relive, reveal, revels, revest, revets, revile, revise, rivals, rivets, saliva, salver, salvia, savant, savate, savine, serval, silvae, silvan, silver, slaver, sleave, slieve, sliver, snivel, vainer, valets, valine, valise, varias, varies, varlet, varnas, vaster, vealer, veenas, veiler, veinal, veiner, velars, velate, venial, venire, venter, verist, verite, vernal, versal, verset, versin, verste, vestal, vetter, vilest, vinals, vineal, vitals, vittae, and vittle — 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 388 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alternatives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alien, alive, altar, alter, and areas. For points, the strongest plays are aiver, alive, alvar, anvil, arval, avail, avant, avast, avens, avers, avert, avian, naevi, naive, naval, navar, navel, naves, nerve, never, neves, nieve, nival, ravel, raven, raves, ravin, reave, reive, revel, revet, rival, riven, rives, rivet, salve, saver, savin, selva, serve, seven, sever, sieve, silva, siver, slave, stave, trave, vails, vairs, vales, valet, valse, vanes, varas, varia, varna, vasal, veals, veena, veers, veils, veins, velar, venae, venal, vents, verse, verst, verts, vesta, vials, viers, viler, vinal, vinas, vines, viral, vires, virls, vista, vitae, vital, vitta, vleis, eaves, elven, elver, elves, ervil, evens, event, evert, evils, evite, invar, larva, lavas, laver, laves, leave, levas, lever, levin, levis, lieve, liven, liver, lives, and livre — 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 alternatives produces 263 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, area, arts, lane, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are aver, aves, lava, lave, lavs, leva, levs, live, nave, navs, neve, nevi, rave, revs, rive, save, tavs, vail, vain, vair, vale, vane, vans, vara, vars, vasa, vase, vast, vats, veal, veer, vees, veil, vein, vela, vena, vent, vera, vert, vest, vets, vial, vier, vies, vile, vina, vine, vins, virl, visa, vise, vita, vlei, eave, even, ever, eves, and evil — 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 alternatives turns up 111 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ava, ave, eve, lav, lev, nav, rev, sev, tav, van, var, vas, vat, vee, vet, via, vie, vin, and vis — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alternatives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, al, an, ar, as, at, el, en, er, es, et, in, is, it, la, li, na, ne, re, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
alternatives 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for alternatives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
alternatives is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alternatives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alternatives, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alternatives 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 alternatives produce 1562 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 2 eleven-letter words, 6 ten-letter words, 39 nine-letter words, 117 eight-letter words, 239 seven-letter words, 371 six-letter words, 388 five-letter words, 263 four-letter words, 111 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.