Hidden inside aquavit sit aquavit and vaquita, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aquavit and vaquita tie for the highest Scrabble score from aquavit at 19 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in aquavit: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aquavit itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aquavit and vaquita, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling aquavit turns up 11 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are qat and qua, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in aquavit plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aquavit and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
aquavit 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for aquavit. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
aquavit is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aquavit unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aquavit and vaquita, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aquavit 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 aquavit produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.