disavowals needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 241 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
disavowals is the highest-scoring word from disavowals, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 241 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in disavowals — and it is disavowals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling disavowals produces exactly one nine-letter word: disavowal. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling disavowals produces exactly one eight-letter word: disavows. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in disavowals produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is disavow, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling disavowals turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with avoids and salads. For points, the strongest play is avowal — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in disavowals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with avoid, dials and lavas. For points, the strongest play is avows — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in disavowals produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, also and dial. For points, the strongest plays are avow, vaws, and vows — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling disavowals turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and ass. For points, the strongest plays are vaw and vow — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in disavowals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and aw. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
disavowals 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 one sense for disavowals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
disavowals is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing disavowals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is disavowals, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from disavowals 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 disavowals produce 241 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.