aggrieve needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 97 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aggrieve is the highest-scoring word from aggrieve, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 97 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in aggrieve — and it is aggrieve itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling aggrieve turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is veggie, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aggrieve. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree and grave. For points, the strongest plays are giver, grave, vegie, verge, and virga — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aggrieve produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, gave, give, and rage. For points, the strongest plays are gave, give, vagi, vega, and viga — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aggrieve turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, egg, era, and eve. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aggrieve. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ag and gi, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in aggrieve and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
aggrieve is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for aggrieve. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
aggrieve is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aggrieve unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is aggrieve, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from aggrieve earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in aggrieve produce 97 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 11 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.