116 words come out when you unscramble STRIVES, starting with STRIVES itself: 10 in Scrabble, 11 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 10 points: STIVERS, TREVISS and VERISTS. The best shorter words score 9: 8 of them, STRIVE, RIVETS and SIVERS included. The 7 letters split into 2 vowels and 5 consonants. All 7 tiles of STRIVES in one turn: 60 in Scrabble (10 + 50), 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
Looking for visster, servits, visters, sstrive, sverist, srivets, esritvs, restivs, rivsets or servist? They use the same letters as STRIVES, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from STRIVES split into 4 with 7 letters, 13 with 6, 25 with 5, 40 with 4, 24 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Of the 40 4-letter words you get when you unscramble STRIVES, 12 score 7 points, the group's best. SITE, REST and SETS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of STRIVES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with ST · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
What STRIVES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
STRIVES works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| STRIVES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 116) | 95 | 115 | 86 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
20 of the 116 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TREVISS, STIVES, TREVIS, STIVE, VERS, VIRE, VITE, REISTS, STIRES, REIST, SEIRS, STIRE and 8 more. 9 of the 116 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SEVS, RESITS, SEV, RESIT, ESTS, TRES, EST, TES and TE. 1 of the 116 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
These 11 words take every letter of STRIVES plus a single extra one.