cavity needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cavity is the highest-scoring word from cavity, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in cavity — and it is cavity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cavity produces exactly one five-letter word: vatic. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cavity produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city. For points, the strongest play is cavy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cavity turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act and cat. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cavity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in cavity plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cavity 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.
cavity 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for cavity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
cavity is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cavity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cavity, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cavity 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 cavity produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.