Hidden inside cardev sit carved and craved, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
CARDEV isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CARVED and CRAVED.
carved and craved tie for the highest Scrabble score from cardev at 12 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling cardev turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carved. For points, the strongest plays are carved and craved — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cardev. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cared, carve, and raced. For points, the strongest play is caved — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cardev produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, care and cave. For points, the strongest play is cave — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cardev turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car and ear. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in cardev plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cardev 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 plays from these letters are carved and craved, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cardev 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 cardev produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.