eigenvalue needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 235 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eigenvalue is the highest-scoring word from eigenvalue, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 235 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in eigenvalue — and it is eigenvalue itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling eigenvalue produces exactly one eight-letter word: leveeing. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in eigenvalue produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaving and valuing. For points, the strongest plays are evangel, leaving, valuing, and vealing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling eigenvalue turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with avenue, eleven, guinea, and league. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including avenge, geneva and glaive.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eigenvalue. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alive and angel. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including given, vegan and ganev.
Rearranging the letters in eigenvalue produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, evil and gain. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including gave, give and vagi.
Unscrambling eigenvalue turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, eve and gal. For points, the strongest plays are guv, veg, vig, and vug — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eigenvalue. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in eigenvalue plus one additional letter.
eigenvalue 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 5-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 eigenvalue. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
eigenvalue is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing eigenvalue unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is eigenvalue, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from eigenvalue 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 eigenvalue produce 235 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.