Hidden inside carves sit carves, cavers, craves and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carves, cavers, craves and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from carves at 11 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in carves: three come from rearranging its letters, and carves itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carves. For points, the strongest plays are carves, cavers, craves, and varecs — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carve, caves, races, and scare. For points, the strongest plays are carve, caver, caves, crave, and varec — 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 carves produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars, case, cave, ears, eras, and race. For points, the strongest plays are cave and vacs — 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 carves turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car, ear, era, and sea. 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, er, es, and re — each worth 2 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 carves 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.
carves 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 three senses for carves. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
carves is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing carves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carves, cavers, craves, and varecs, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from carves 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 carves produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.