Hidden inside drives sit divers and drives, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
divers and drives tie for the highest Scrabble score from drives at 10 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in drives: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drives itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drives. For points, the strongest plays are divers and drives — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dives, dries, drive, and rides. For points, the strongest plays are devis, diver, dives, drive, rived, and vised — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in drives produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dive, ride, rids, rise, and side. For points, the strongest plays are devi, devs, dive, vide, vids, and vied — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling drives turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, red, rid, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 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 drives and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
drives 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 thirty-four senses for drives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
drives is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are divers and drives, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drives 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 drives produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.