Hidden inside cavies sit cavies and vesica, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cavies and vesica tie for the highest Scrabble score from cavies at 11 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in cavies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cavies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cavies and vesica, 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cavies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caves. For points, the strongest plays are caves, cavie, and vices — 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 cavies produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with case, cave, ices, save, vase, and vice. For points, the strongest plays are cave, vacs, and vice — 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 cavies turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice 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 cavies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, as, es, is, and si — 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 cavies 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.
cavies 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 cavies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
cavies is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cavies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cavies and vesica, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cavies 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 cavies produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.