Hidden inside engraves sit avengers and engraves, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 234 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
avengers and engraves tie for the highest Scrabble score from engraves at 12 points. The top 10 of 234 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in engraves: one comes from rearranging its letters, and engraves itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avengers and engraves, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in engraves 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 words are avenger, avenges, engrave, genevas, and greaves, 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 engraves turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, angers, graves, grease, nerves, ranges, and vegans. For points, the strongest plays are avenge, ganevs, geneva, graven, graves, greave, regave, vegans, venges, and verges — 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 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in engraves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, anger, earns, erase, genes, grave, and green. For points, the strongest plays are ganev, grave, vangs, vegan, vegas, veges, 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 engraves produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, earn, ears, ease, eras, even, and ever. 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 engraves turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, eve, gas, and gee. 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in engraves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. 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 engraves and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
engraves 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 engraves. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
engraves is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing engraves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are avengers and engraves, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from engraves 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 engraves produce 234 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.