Hidden inside cravies sit varices and viscera, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble VARCISE, CRESIVA or CARVIES and you get the same 7 letters as CRAVIES: so the words from CRAVIES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
CRAVIES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to VARICES and VISCERA.
varices and viscera tie for the highest Scrabble score from cravies at 12 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in cravies produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are varices and viscera, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cravies turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carves. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including carves, cavers and cavies.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cravies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carve and caves. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including carve, caves and caver.
Rearranging the letters in cravies produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, care and cars. For points, the strongest plays are cave, vacs, and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cravies turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and car. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in cravies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cravies 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are varices and viscera, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cravies 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 cravies produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.