Hidden inside cassava sit casavas and cassava, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 18 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
casavas and cassava tie for the highest Scrabble score from cassava at 12 points. The top 10 of 18 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in cassava: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cassava itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are casavas and cassava, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cassava produces exactly one six-letter word: casava. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cassava. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cavas, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cassava produces 5 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cava and vacs, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in cassava plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cassava and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
cassava 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 cassava. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cassava is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cassava unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are casavas and cassava, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cassava 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 cassava produce 18 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.