Hidden inside engrave sit avenger and engrave, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
avenger and engrave tie for the highest Scrabble score from engrave at 11 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in engrave: one comes from rearranging its letters, and engrave itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avenger and engrave, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling engrave turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avenge, geneva, graven, greave, and regave, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in engrave. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, anger, grave, green, nerve, never, and range. For points, the strongest plays are ganev, grave, vegan, venge, and verge — 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 engrave produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, even, ever, gave, gene, near, and rage. For points, the strongest plays are gave, vang, and vega — each 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 engrave turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, eve, gee, and nag. For points, the strongest play is veg — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in engrave. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an. For points, the strongest play is ag — 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 engrave 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.
engrave 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 3-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 engrave. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
engrave is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing engrave unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are avenger and engrave, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from engrave 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 engrave produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.