95 words come out when you unscramble PRIMITIVE, starting with PRIMITIVE itself: 16 in Scrabble, 19 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, PRIVET leads with 11 points. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from PRIMITIVE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 6 with 6, 14 with 5, 39 with 4, 24 with 3 and 11 with 2. None has 8 or 7 letters.
MIRV and PERV share the top score of 9 among the 4-letter words from PRIMITIVE. TIME, ITEM and TERM are the ones most people know.
These 2 words have the length of PRIMITIVE, with one letter different:
More 9-letter words: starting with PR · ending in VE · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by PRIVET (11 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PRIMITIVE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRIMITIVE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 95) | 76 | 94 | 72 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: MIRV, MPRET, EMPT, MIRITI, PREM, PETRI, PIERT, VIRE, VITE, MERI, PIET, RIEM and 6 more, 18 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: PERV, PERITI, TREM and TE, 4 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
With one more tile, the letters of PRIMITIVE spell the words below.