Unscramble DESCRIVE to get 212 words. DESCRIVE itself is a real word: 14 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. 2 anagrams of DESCRIVE are on the page: SCRIEVED and SERVICED, each 14 points. Of the shorter words, DEVICES, CERVIDS and SCRIVED lead with 13 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from DESCRIVE split into 3 with 8 letters, 11 with 7, 31 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 37 with 3 and 10 with 2.
CERVID and DEVICE share the top score of 12 among the 6-letter words from DESCRIVE. SERVED, DRIVES and DESIRE are the ones most people know.
Among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble DESCRIVE, VICED leads with 11 points, then CIVES and VICES on 10. DRIVE, SERVE and VERSE are the familiar ones.
CIVE and VICE are the top 4-letter words from DESCRIVE, 9 points each. EVER, DISC and RIDE will look familiar.
Keep every letter of DESCRIVE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DE · ending in VE · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by SCRIEVED and SERVICED (14 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: DESCRIVE is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DESCRIVE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 212) | 168 | 212 | 158 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DESCRIVE, CIVES, REVIED, RIEVED, CIVE, DEEVS, DERVS, DRICES, REVIES, RIEVES, VIRED, CIDES and 32 more, 44 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CERVIDS, DEVIS, CREDS, DEVI, VIDS, CRED, VID, SEV, DESI and EDS, 10 in all.
These 8 words take every letter of DESCRIVE plus a single extra one.