knavery needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
knavery is the highest-scoring word from knavery, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in knavery — and it is knavery itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in knavery. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are knave and narky, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in knavery produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, navy and near. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including kray, kyar and ryke.
Unscrambling knavery turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, are and aye. For points, the strongest plays are kay, key, kye, and yak — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in knavery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and ay. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in knavery plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in knavery and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
knavery 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 one sense for knavery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
knavery is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing knavery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is knavery, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from knavery 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 knavery produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.