Hidden inside bereav is one standout: beaver, a six-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
BEREAV isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to BEAVER (verb), to work hard, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
beaver is the highest-scoring word from bereav, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling bereav produces exactly one six-letter word: beaver. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bereav produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bare, bear, beer, and ever. For points, the strongest play is verb — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bereav turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, bar and bee. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including eve, ave and rev.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in bereav plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bereav and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is beaver, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bereav 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 bereav produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.