Hidden inside arval sit alvar, arval, and larva, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alvar, arval, and larva tie for the highest Scrabble score from arval at 8 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in arval: two come from rearranging its letters, and arval itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alvar, arval, and larva, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in arval produces 3 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lava. For points, the strongest plays are lava and vara — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arval turns up 6 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ava, lav, and var, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arval. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aa, al, ar, and la, each worth 2 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 arval and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
arval 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.
arval is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arval unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alvar, arval, and larva, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arval 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 arval produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.