Hidden inside cravens sit caverns and cravens, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caverns and cravens tie for the highest Scrabble score from cravens at 12 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in cravens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cravens 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 caverns and cravens, each 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 cravens turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carves. For points, the strongest plays are carven, carves, cavern, cavers, craven, craves, and varecs — 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 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cravens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carve, caves, earns, races, saner, and scare. For points, the strongest plays are carve, caver, caves, crave, and varec — 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 cravens produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, care, cars, case, cave, earn, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are cave and vacs — 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 cravens turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, can, car, ear, era, ran, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cravens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, as, en, er, es, na, ne, and re — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in cravens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cravens 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.
cravens 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for cravens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cravens is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cravens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are caverns and cravens, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cravens 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 cravens produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.