Hidden inside aquavits sit aquavits and vaquitas, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aquavits and vaquitas tie for the highest Scrabble score from aquavits at 20 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in aquavits: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aquavits itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aquavits and vaquitas, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in aquavits produces 2 valid seven-letter words. 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.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aquavits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with quits. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including quits, aquas and quais.
Rearranging the letters in aquavits produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with quit and suit. For points, the strongest plays are aqua, qats, quai, and quit — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling aquavits turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, sat, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are qat, qis, qua, and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aquavits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and is. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in aquavits 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.
aquavits 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 aquavits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
aquavits is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aquavits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aquavits and vaquitas, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aquavits 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 aquavits produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.