Hidden inside lavations sit lavations and salvation, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 306 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lavations and salvation tie for the highest Scrabble score from lavations at 12 points. The top 10 of 306 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in lavations: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lavations itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lavations and salvation, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lavations. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lavation, valiants, and valonias, 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 lavations produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are valiant, valonia, and vanitas, each 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 lavations turns up 32 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anvils, avails, avians, avions, lovats, saliva, salvia, savant, silvan, vinals, violas, vitals, and volant, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lavations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lavas, lions, loans, nails, saint, stain, and tails. For points, the strongest plays are anvil, avail, avant, avast, avian, avion, aviso, lavas, lovat, naval, nival, novas, ovals, salvo, savin, silva, vails, vasal, vials, vinal, vinas, vinos, viola, viols, vista, vital, voila, volta, volti, and volts — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lavations produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ants, into, last, lava, lion, and list. For points, the strongest plays are avos, lava, lavs, navs, nova, oval, tavs, vail, vain, vans, vasa, vast, vats, vial, vina, vino, vins, viol, visa, vita, and volt — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lavations turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, its, lit, lot, not, oil, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ava, avo, lav, nav, ova, tav, van, vas, vat, via, vin, and vis — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lavations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ai, al, an, as, at, in, is, it, la, li, lo, na, no, oi, on, os, si, so, ta, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in lavations plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lavations and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
lavations 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 3-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 lavations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
lavations is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lavations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lavations and salvation, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lavations 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 lavations produce 306 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.