Hidden inside canvasser sit canvasers and canvasser, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
canvasers and canvasser tie for the highest Scrabble score from canvasser at 14 points. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in canvasser: one comes from rearranging its letters, and canvasser 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 canvasers and canvasser, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in canvasser. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are canvaser and canvases, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in canvasser produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scarves. For points, the strongest plays are canvass, caverns, cravens, and scarves — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling canvasser turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carves and scares. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including carves, canvas and carven.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in canvasser. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, cares and carve. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including carve, caves and cavas.
Rearranging the letters in canvasser produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, cans and care. For points, the strongest plays are cava, cave, and vacs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling canvasser turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass and can. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in canvasser plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in canvasser 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.
canvasser 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 four senses for canvasser. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
canvasser is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing canvasser unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are canvasers and canvasser, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from canvasser 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 canvasser produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.