kavakava needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 7 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kavakava is the highest-scoring word from kavakava, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 7 of 7 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in kavakava — and it is kavakava itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in kavakava plus one additional letter.
kavakava 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 kavakava. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
kavakava is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kavakava unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is kavakava, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from kavakava 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 kavakava produce 7 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 2 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.