controverts needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 397 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
controverts is the highest-scoring word from controverts, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 397 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in controverts — and it is controverts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in controverts produces 2 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 controvert and convertors, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling controverts turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is convertor, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in controverts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with converts. For points, the strongest plays are converso and converts — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in controverts produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contest, convert, corners, cottons, rooster, and scooter. For points, the strongest plays are convert, corvets, coverts, and vectors — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling controverts turns up 75 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corner, cotton, covers, rotten, sector, and voters. For points, the strongest plays are convos, corves, corvet, covens, covers, covert, covets, and vector — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 103 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in controverts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cones, cores, corns, cover, notes, and ovens. For points, the strongest plays are convo, coven, cover, coves, covet, and voces — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in controverts produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cone, cons, core, corn, cost, and nest. For points, the strongest play is cove — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling controverts turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, net, nor, not, one, set, and son. For points, the strongest plays are rev, sev, vet, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in controverts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, ne, no, oe, on, or, os, re, so, te, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
controverts 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 two senses for controverts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
controverts is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing controverts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is controverts, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from controverts 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 controverts produce 397 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 75 six-letter words, 103 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.