Hidden inside caviares sit avarices and caviares, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 180 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
avarices and caviares tie for the highest Scrabble score from caviares at 13 points. The top 10 of 180 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in caviares: one comes from rearranging its letters, and caviares 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 avarices and caviares, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in caviares produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are airvacs, avarice, caviare and 3 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling caviares turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carves. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including carves, airvac and cavers.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in caviares. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, cares and carve. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including carve, caves and cavas.
Rearranging the letters in caviares produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, area and care. For points, the strongest plays are cava, cave, vacs, and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling caviares turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and car. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in caviares plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in caviares 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.
caviares 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 caviares. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
caviares is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing caviares unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are avarices and caviares, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from caviares 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 caviares produce 180 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.