gravest needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gravest is the highest-scoring word from gravest, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in gravest — and it is gravest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gravest turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with graves and starve. For points, the strongest play is graves — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gravest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, grave and great. For points, the strongest plays are grave and vegas — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gravest produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, arts and ears. For points, the strongest plays are gave and vega — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gravest turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and art. For points, the strongest play is veg — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in gravest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gravest 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.
gravest 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
gravest is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gravest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is gravest, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gravest 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 gravest produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 12 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.