stuck on 8... kept coming back to stuff like reversing ( and many more serveing and all sorts of invented stuff that COULD just possibly have been a word.. grievens well.. the possibilities are endless... well not enless... you only got 8 letters..
I tried not to oversinge my brain on the 9-letter level. Was disappointed that didn't work, but it allowed me to accidentally arrive at the solution when I moved the "s" to the beginning of the letter group.