Hidden inside gravitas sit gravitas and stravaig, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gravitas and stravaig tie for the highest Scrabble score from gravitas at 12 points. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in gravitas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gravitas 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 gravitas and stravaig, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling gravitas turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is virgas, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gravitas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stair. For points, the strongest plays are avgas, vigas, and virga — 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 gravitas produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, rags, rats, rigs, star, and stir. For points, the strongest plays are vagi, 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 gravitas turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, gas, its, rag, rat, and rig. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gravitas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, 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.
Swap a single tile in gravitas 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.
gravitas 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for gravitas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
gravitas is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gravitas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gravitas and stravaig, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gravitas 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 gravitas produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.