Hidden inside deaves sit deaves and evades, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deaves and evades tie for the highest Scrabble score from deaves at 10 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in deaves: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deaves 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 deaves and evades, 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deaves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eased and saved. For points, the strongest plays are deave, devas, eaved, evade, and saved — 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 deaves produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, eves, save, seed, and vase. For points, the strongest plays are deva and devs — 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 deaves turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, eve, sad, sea, and see. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deaves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — 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 deaves 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.
deaves 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for deaves. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
deaves is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deaves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deaves and evades, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deaves 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 deaves produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.