Hidden inside carved 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.
carved and craved tie for the highest Scrabble score from carved at 12 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in carved: one comes from rearranging its letters, and carved itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. 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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carved. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in carved produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, care, cave, dare, dear, race, and read. For points, the strongest play is cave — 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 carved turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car, ear, era, and red. 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carved. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in carved 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.
carved 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 one sense for carved. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
carved is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing carved unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carved and craved, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from carved 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 carved 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.