Hidden inside craving sit carving and craving, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carving and craving tie for the highest Scrabble score from craving at 13 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in craving: one comes from rearranging its letters, and craving itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carving. For points, the strongest plays are carving 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 craving turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring and racing. 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in craving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cigar. 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 craving produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, rain, rang, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are vagi, vang, and viga — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling craving turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, can, car, nag, rag, ran, and rig. 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in craving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. 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 craving 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.
craving 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 one sense for craving. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
craving is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing craving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carving and craving, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from craving 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 craving produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.