Unscramble SEVERITIES to get 256 words. SEVERITIES itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. RESISTIVE is the best of the shorter words, at 12 points. It has 10 letters, 5 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from SEVERITIES by length: 1 with 10 letters, 1 with 9, 10 with 8, 30 with 7, 53 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 30 with 3 and 11 with 2.
There is a single one of the 9-letter words in SEVERITIES: RESISTIVE, 12 points.
Of the 30 7-letter words you get when you unscramble SEVERITIES, 26 score 10 points, the group's best. STRIVES and REVISIT are the ones most people know.
34 of 53 6-letter words from SEVERITIES tie at 9 points; none scores more. SERIES, SISTER and SEVERE will look familiar.
60 5-letter words from SEVERITIES; 27 of them share the top score of 8. SITES, VISIT and SERVE are everyday picks.
Among 60 4-letter words in SEVERITIES, the top score is 7, reached by 18. SITE, EVER and TREE are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of SEVERITIES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with SE · ending in ES · all 10-letter words
What SEVERITIES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SEVERITIES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEVERITIES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 256) | 200 | 255 | 184 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
55 of the 256 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TREVISES, VISITEES, IVRESSE, STEEVER, STERVES, STIEVER, STIVIER, TREVISS, VISIERS, VISITEE, VISITES, ESSIVE and 43 more. 16 of the 256 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SEVERIES, SIEVERTS, SIEVERT, SEVS, TERESES, RESITS, SEV, RESES, RESIT, TERES, ESSE, ESTS and 4 more. 1 of the 256 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.