devours needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
devours is the highest-scoring word from devours, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in devours — and it is devours itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling devours turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are devour and droves, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devours. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drove. For points, the strongest plays are doves, drove, and roved — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in devours produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dove and ours. For points, the strongest plays are devs and dove — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling devours turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, our and red. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devours. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in devours plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in devours and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
devours 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 devours. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
devours is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing devours unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is devours, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from devours 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 devours produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.