Hidden inside avarice sit avarice and caviare, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
avarice and caviare tie for the highest Scrabble score from avarice at 12 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in avarice: one comes from rearranging its letters, and avarice 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 avarice and caviare, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avarice. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carve. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including carve, caver and cavie.
Rearranging the letters in avarice produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, care and cave. For points, the strongest plays are cava, cave, and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling avarice turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and car. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avarice. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aa, ae, ai and 3 more, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in avarice plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in avarice 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.
avarice 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 two senses for avarice. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
avarice is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing avarice unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are avarice and caviare, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from avarice 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 avarice produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.