Hidden inside gavin sit vagi, vang, and viga, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble NAIVG, AGINV or GAINV and you get the same 5 letters as GAVIN: so the words from GAVIN listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
vagi, vang, and viga tie for the highest Scrabble score from gavin at 8 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are vagi, vang, and viga, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gavin 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 gavin produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.