server S₁E₁R₁V₄E₁R₁

The word SERVER bridges computing and everyday work: it can name software, the machine running that software, an online community space, or a person who serves. Its six letters include one V, the only tile worth more than one point. That makes the 9-point base score easy to verify, while its anagrams and one-letter neighbours are less familiar than the main word.

SERVER at a glance

• SERVER has six letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble.
• Its tile values are 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, and 1; V supplies four points.
• Revers and verser are its two anagrams.
• Served, serves, serger, and nerver differ by one letter.
• SERVER is a common word listed in Collins, NWL2023, and ENABLE.

What does SERVER mean?

SERVER meaning depends on the setting: in computing, it is a program that supplies services to other programs or devices, or a computer dedicated to running those programs. The word also names a community space where members communicate in channels.

Outside technology, a server is someone who serves. The shared idea is the role: a server provides something to another person, program, or device. In a clue, the surrounding words usually tell you whether the answer is a worker, a machine, or software.

What is the SERVER Scrabble score?

SERVER scores 9 points before board bonuses: five tiles score 1 each, and V scores 4. The V is the scoring hinge; replacing it with a one-point tile would lower the letter total by 3. Count premium-square effects separately from this base value.

Revers and verser are anagrams, but neither is as familiar as SERVER, so they are poor first choices when you need a word you can confidently play. The four one-letter neighbours are served, serves, serger, and nerver. Check your game's word list before relying on rare forms.

SERVER also shares its ending sound with over, never, ever, cover, river, and silver. Those are among its 12 rhymes. The rhyme is a sound clue, not a spelling rule: over and never end with different letters, so use the exact pattern your puzzle requires.