Hidden inside carvings sit carvings and cravings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carvings and cravings tie for the highest Scrabble score from carvings at 14 points. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in carvings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and carvings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carvings and cravings, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in carvings produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carving and scaring. For points, the strongest plays are carving, cavings, and craving — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling carvings turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring, cigars, racing, and saving. For points, the strongest play is caving — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carvings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cigar, gains, rains, and rings. For points, the strongest plays are vicar and vinca — 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 carvings produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, cans, cars, gain, nags, rags, and rain. For points, the strongest play is vacs — 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 carvings turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, can, car, gas, nag, rag, and ran. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carvings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — 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 carvings and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
carvings 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 4-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 carvings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
carvings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing carvings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carvings and cravings, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from carvings 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 carvings produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.