Hidden inside deaved sit deaved and evaded, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deaved and evaded tie for the highest Scrabble score from deaved at 11 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in deaved: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deaved itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deaved and evaded, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deaved. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deave, eaved, and evade, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in deaved plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deaved 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.
deaved 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.
deaved is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deaved unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deaved and evaded, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deaved 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 deaved produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.