Hidden inside davies sit advise, davies, and visaed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
advise, davies, and visaed tie for the highest Scrabble score from davies at 10 points. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in davies: two come from rearranging its letters, and davies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advise. For points, the strongest plays are advise, davies, and visaed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in davies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, dives, ideas, and saved. For points, the strongest plays are devas, devis, divas, dives, saved, and vised — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in davies produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, dies, dive, idea, said, save, and side. For points, the strongest plays are avid, deva, devi, devs, diva, dive, vide, vids, and vied — 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 davies turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, die, ids, sad, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in davies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — 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 davies 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.
davies 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
davies is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing davies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are advise, davies, and visaed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from davies 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 davies produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.