Hidden inside greave sit greave and regave, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
greave and regave tie for the highest Scrabble score from greave at 10 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in greave: one comes from rearranging its letters, and greave itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are greave and regave, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greave. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree and grave. For points, the strongest plays are grave and verge — 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 greave produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, gave, and rage. For points, the strongest plays are gave 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 greave turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, eve, gee, and rag. 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in greave. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ag, 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 greave and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
greave 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 greave. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
greave is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing greave unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are greave and regave, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from greave 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 greave produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.