ravens needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ravens is the highest-scoring word from ravens, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in ravens — and it is ravens itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ravens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns and saner. For points, the strongest plays are avens, avers, naves, raven, raves, saver, and vanes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ravens produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, ears, eras, near, sane, save, and vans. For points, the strongest plays are aver, aves, nave, navs, rave, revs, save, vane, vans, vars, vase, vena, and vera — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ravens turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, ran, sea, and van. For points, the strongest plays are ave, nav, rev, sev, van, var, and vas — each worth 6 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 ravens. 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.
Swap a single tile in ravens 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.
ravens 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for ravens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ravens is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ravens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ravens, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ravens 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 ravens produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 12 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.