Hidden inside leavens sit enslave and leavens, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enslave and leavens tie for the highest Scrabble score from leavens at 10 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in leavens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and leavens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enslave and leavens, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leavens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves, lanes and leans. For points, 22 words tie at 8 points, including elves, leave and seven.
Rearranging the letters in leavens produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, else and even. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including even, eves and save.
Unscrambling leavens turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, sea, see, and van. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including eve, van and ave.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in leavens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in leavens 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.
leavens 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 three senses for leavens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
leavens is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leavens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enslave and leavens, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from leavens 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 leavens produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.