Unscramble PREVENTIVE and you have 206 words, PREVENTIVE itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is EVENTIVE, 14 points. It has 10 letters, 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from PREVENTIVE by length: 1 with 10 letters, 2 with 8, 10 with 7, 32 with 6, 50 with 5, 60 with 4, 39 with 3 and 12 with 2. None has 9 letters.
REVIVE, VERVEN and VERVET are the top 6-letter words you get when you unscramble PREVENTIVE, 12 points each. ENTIRE, VENEER and REPENT will look familiar.
The 5-letter words from PREVENTIVE are led by VERVE and VIVER, 11 points each. PRINT, NEVER and EVENT are the familiar ones.
VIVE scores highest among the 4-letter words made with PREVENTIVE letters at 10 points, ahead of PERV and VEEP on 9. EVEN, TEEN and EVER are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of PREVENTIVE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with PR · ending in VE · all 10-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; EVENTIVE (14 points) takes the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PREVENTIVE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PREVENTIVE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 206) | 147 | 205 | 139 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PREVENE, VERVEN, PEEVER, PREEVE, PRIEVE, VIVER, EVERNET, PERENTIE, PERVE, PREVE, ENERVE, TERPINE and 46 more, 58 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: EVENTIVE, EVENTER, INEPTER, PERV, PERE, VIN, TEIN and TE, 8 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
With one more tile, the letters of PREVENTIVE spell the words below.