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.
Unscramble VINSORE, SENVOIR or VIONERS and you get the same 7 letters as VERSION: so the words from VERSION listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
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.
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 and ovens. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including ovens, veins and envoi.
Rearranging the letters in version produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with iron, nose and ones. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including oven, over and vein.
Unscrambling version turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, one and sin. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including rev, sev and vie.
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 and no. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and no.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in version plus one additional letter.
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.