devour needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
devour is the highest-scoring word from devour, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in devour — and it is devour itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devour. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drove. For points, the strongest plays are drove and roved — 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 devour produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dove, over, rode, and rude. For points, the strongest play is dove — 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 devour turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, our, red, and rod. 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devour. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and or. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — 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 devour 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.
devour 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 four senses for devour. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
devour is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing devour unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is devour, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from devour 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 devour produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.