Hidden inside heave sit heave and hevea, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
heave and hevea tie for the highest Scrabble score from heave at 11 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in heave: one comes from rearranging its letters, and heave itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are heave and hevea, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in heave produces 2 valid four-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: have, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling heave turns up 4 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve. For points, the strongest plays are ave, eve, hae, and vee — each worth 6 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 heave. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ah, eh, ha, and he, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in heave and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
heave 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in heave carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record fourteen senses for heave. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
heave is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing heave unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are heave and hevea, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from heave 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 heave produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 2 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.