Hidden inside havens sit havens and shaven, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
havens and shaven tie for the highest Scrabble score from havens at 12 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in havens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and havens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shaven. For points, the strongest plays are havens and shaven — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in havens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shave. For points, the strongest plays are haven, haves, and shave — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in havens produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with have, hens and sane. For points, the strongest play is have — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling havens turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, has and hen. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hen.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in havens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in havens 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.
havens 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for havens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
havens is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing havens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are havens and shaven, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from havens 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 havens produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.