Hidden inside verbatim sit ambivert and verbatim, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 180 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ambivert and verbatim tie for the highest Scrabble score from verbatim at 15 points. The top 10 of 180 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in verbatim: one comes from rearranging its letters, and verbatim itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ambivert and verbatim, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in verbatim produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are vibrate and vitamer, 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 verbatim turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are barmie, timber, and timbre, 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verbatim. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brave and tribe. For points, the strongest plays are brave, bravi, and mavie — 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 verbatim produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bait, bare, beam, bear, beat, bite, and brat. For points, the strongest plays are verb and vibe — each 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 verbatim turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, art, ate, and bam. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verbatim. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, be, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, be, bi, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in verbatim plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in verbatim 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.
verbatim 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 verbatim. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
verbatim is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing verbatim unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ambivert and verbatim, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from verbatim 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 verbatim produce 180 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.