Unscramble RESTRIVES and you have 275 words, RESTRIVES itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 12 points: RESERVIST and REVERISTS. Among the shorter answers, 10 reach 11 points, RESTRIVE, REVERIST and REVERSIS among them. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from RESTRIVES by length: 3 with 9 letters, 12 with 8, 38 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 31 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Of the 38 7-letter words from RESTRIVES, 26 score 10 points, the group's best. SERVERS, STRIVES and RETIRES are the ones most people know.
34 of 60 6-letter words you get when you unscramble RESTRIVES tie at 9 points; none scores more. SERIES, SERVER and SISTER will look familiar.
Of the 60 5-letter words from RESTRIVES, 24 score 8 points, the group's best. SITES, RIVER and SERVE are the ones most people know.
Among 60 4-letter words in RESTRIVES, the top score is 7, reached by 18. SITE, EVER and TREE are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of RESTRIVES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with RE · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
RESTRIVES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept RESTRIVES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RESTRIVES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 275) | 217 | 274 | 201 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
57 of the 275 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: REVERISTS, REVERIST, REVERSIS, RIVERETS, TREVISES, IVRESSE, REVERSI, RIVERET, STERVES, STIEVER, TREVISS, ESSIVE and 45 more. 16 of the 275 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SIEVERTS, SIEVERT, ETRIERS, SEVS, ETRIER, RESITS, SEV, RESES, RESIT, TERES, ESSE, ESTS and 4 more. 1 of the 275 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
With one more tile, the letters of RESTRIVES spell the words below.