Hidden inside calvaries sit calvaries, cavaliers, and cavalries, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 416 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calvaries, cavaliers, and cavalries tie for the highest Scrabble score from calvaries at 14 points. The top 10 of 416 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in calvaries: two come from rearranging its letters, and calvaries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calvaries, cavaliers, and cavalries, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calvaries. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avarices, caravels, cavalier, caviares, cavilers, claviers, variceal, and visceral, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in calvaries produces 24 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 airvacs, avarice, caravel, carvels, caviare, caviars, caviler, clavers, clavier, clivers, scravel, valeric, varices, vesical, and viscera, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling calvaries turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calves, carves, clears, livers, serial, and silver. For points, the strongest plays are airvac, calves, carvel, carves, cavers, caviar, cavies, cavils, claver, claves, clevis, craves, scrive, varecs, vesica, and vicars — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 122 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calvaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alive, areas, cares, carve, caves, and clear. For points, the strongest plays are calve, carve, cavas, caver, caves, cavie, cavil, clave, clavi, crave, varec, vicar, and vices — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in calvaries produces 116 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, area, care, cars, case, cave, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are cava, cave, vacs, and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling calvaries turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, car, ear, era, ice, and lie. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calvaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, al, ar, as, el, er, es, is, la, li, re, and si — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in calvaries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in calvaries and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
calvaries 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 3-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 calvaries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
calvaries is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calvaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calvaries, cavaliers, and cavalries, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from calvaries 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 calvaries produce 416 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 122 five-letter words, 116 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.