gallivants 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, 355 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gallivants is the highest-scoring word from gallivants, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 355 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in gallivants — and it is gallivants itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gallivants turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are galivants and gallivant, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gallivants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stalling and vanillas. For points, the strongest play is galivant — 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 gallivants produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with against, install, lasting, vaginas, and vanilla. For points, the strongest plays are gavials, salving, slaving, staving, vaginal, and vaginas — 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 gallivants turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants, saving, signal, and vagina. For points, the strongest plays are gavial, laving, saving, and vagina — 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 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gallivants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, gains, giant, lavas, nails, saint, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are avgas, vagal, vangs, and vigas — 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 gallivants produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, gain, gals, last, lava, list, and nags. For points, the strongest plays are vagi, vang, viga, and vigs — 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 gallivants turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ant, gal, gas, ill, its, and lit. For points, the strongest play is vig — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gallivants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
gallivants 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 gallivants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
gallivants is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gallivants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gallivants, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gallivants 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 gallivants produce 355 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.