Hidden inside elevators sit elevators and levatores, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 540 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elevators and levatores tie for the highest Scrabble score from elevators at 12 points. The top 10 of 540 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in elevators: one comes from rearranging its letters, and elevators itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elevators. For points, the strongest plays are elevators and levatores — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elevators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elevator. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including elevator, levators and loveseat.
Rearranging the letters in elevators produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relates, resolve and reveals. For points, 20 words tie at 10 points, including resolve, reveals and several.
Unscrambling elevators turns up 94 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and easter. For points, 50 words tie at 9 points, including leaves, loaves and lovers.
There are 155 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elevators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and elves. For points, 61 words tie at 8 points, including elves, leave and lover.
Rearranging the letters in elevators produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, arts and last. For points, 38 words tie at 7 points, including love, over and save.
Unscrambling elevators turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including eve, vet and ave.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elevators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and or. For points, 19 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and or.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in elevators plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in elevators and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
elevators 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 two senses for elevators. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
elevators is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing elevators unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elevators and levatores, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from elevators 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 elevators produce 540 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 94 six-letter words, 155 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.