gravamen needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gravamen is the highest-scoring word from gravamen, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in gravamen — and it is gravamen itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gravamen produces exactly one seven-letter word: manager. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gravamen turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manage. For points, the strongest plays are graven and ravage — 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gravamen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, grave, range, and vegan. For points, the strongest play is maven — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gravamen produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, area, earn, game, gave, germ, and mean. 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 gravamen turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, arm, ear, era, man, and men. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gravamen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in gravamen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gravamen 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.
gravamen 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
gravamen is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gravamen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gravamen, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gravamen 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 gravamen produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.