Hidden inside lavatories sit lavatories and variolates, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 819 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lavatories and variolates tie for the highest Scrabble score from lavatories at 13 points. The top 10 of 819 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in lavatories: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lavatories itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lavatories and variolates, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lavatories turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are salivator, varietals, variolate, and violaters, 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 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lavatories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with violates. For points, the strongest plays are aestival, aviators, levators, oversalt, reavails, salivate, travails, travoise, valorise, variates, varietal, variolas, varioles, vertisol, viatores, violater, violates, and votaries — 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 lavatories produces 53 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolate, saltier, travels, and violate. For points, the strongest plays are aviates, aviator, estival, levator, loviest, ovarial, ovaries, overlit, raviest, reavail, revisal, revolts, solvate, travail, travels, travois, variate, variola, variole, varlets, vastier, velaria, veritas, vestral, viators, violate, and violets — 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 lavatories turns up 149 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, altars, alters, livers, loaves, lovers, and olives. For points, the strongest plays are aivers, alvars, avails, averts, aviate, avoset, ervils, larvae, larvas, lavers, livers, livest, livres, loaves, lovats, lovers, lovier, olives, ravels, revolt, rivals, rivets, saliva, salver, salvia, salvor, savate, savior, serval, silvae, silver, slaver, sliver, solver, soviet, starve, stevia, stiver, stover, strive, strove, travel, traves, troves, valets, valise, valors, varias, varies, varlet, vaster, velars, verist, versal, vestal, viator, vilest, violas, violet, vireos, vitals, voiles, voltes, and voters — 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 246 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lavatories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alive, altar, alter, areas, and roast. For points, the strongest plays are aiver, alive, alvar, arval, arvos, avail, avast, avers, avert, aviso, rives, rivet, roves, salve, salvo, saver, savor, selva, servo, silva, siver, slave, soave, solve, stave, stove, trave, trove, vails, vairs, vales, valet, valor, valse, varas, varia, vasal, veals, veils, velar, verso, verst, verts, vesta, vials, viers, viler, viola, viols, viral, vireo, vires, virls, visor, vista, vitae, vital, vleis, voila, voile, volar, voles, volta, volte, volti, volts, voter, votes, ervil, evils, laevo, larva, lavas, laver, laves, levas, levis, liver, lives, livre, lovat, lover, loves, oaves, olive, ovals, ovate, overs, overt, ravel, raves, and rival — 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 lavatories produces 223 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also, area, arts, last, late, and lava. For points, the strongest plays are arvo, aver, aves, avos, lava, lave, lavs, leva, levo, levs, live, love, oval, over, rave, revs, rive, rove, save, tavs, vail, vair, vale, vara, vars, vasa, vase, vast, vats, veal, veil, vela, vera, vert, vest, veto, vets, vial, vier, vies, vile, viol, virl, visa, vise, vita, vlei, voes, vole, volt, vote, and evil — 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 lavatories turns up 97 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ava, ave, avo, lav, lev, ova, rev, sev, tav, var, vas, vat, vet, via, vie, vis, and voe — 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lavatories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, is, it, la, li, lo, oe, oi, or, os, re, si, so, ta, te, 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in lavatories plus one additional letter.
lavatories 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 three senses for lavatories. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
lavatories is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lavatories unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lavatories and variolates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lavatories 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 lavatories produce 819 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 53 seven-letter words, 149 six-letter words, 246 five-letter words, 223 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.