cravenness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cravenness is the highest-scoring word from cravenness, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in cravenness — and it is cravenness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cravenness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is crevasse, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cravenness produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scarves and screens. For points, the strongest plays are caverns, cravens, and scarves — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cravenness turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carves, ceases and erases. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including carves, carven and cavern.
There are 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cravenness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carve and cases. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including carve, caves and caver.
Rearranging the letters in cravenness produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, care and cars. For points, the strongest plays are cave and vacs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cravenness turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass and can. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
cravenness 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 cravenness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
cravenness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cravenness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cravenness, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cravenness 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 cravenness produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.