Hidden inside levantine sit levantine and valentine, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 209 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
levantine and valentine tie for the highest Scrabble score from levantine at 12 points. The top 10 of 209 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in levantine: one comes from rearranging its letters, and levantine itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with valentine. For points, the strongest plays are levantine and valentine — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling levantine produces exactly one eight-letter word: venetian. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in levantine produces 7 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 elative, enliven, naivete, veinlet, and ventail, 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 levantine turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invent and native. For points, the strongest plays are alevin, alvine, invent, leaven, levant, native, valine, veinal, velate, venial, venine, and vineal — 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 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in levantine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alive, eaten, event, leave, and naive. For points, the strongest plays are alive, anvil, elven, event, evite, leave, levin, lieve, liven, naevi, naive, navel, nieve, nival, valet, veena, venae, venal, venin, vinal, vitae, and vital — 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 levantine produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, evil, lane, late, lean, lent, and line. For points, the strongest plays are eave, even, evil, lave, leva, live, nave, neve, nevi, vail, vain, vale, vane, veal, veil, vein, vela, vena, vent, vial, vile, vina, vine, vita, and vlei — 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 levantine turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, eve, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are ave, eve, lav, lev, nav, tav, van, vat, vee, vet, via, vie, and vin — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in levantine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, an, at, el, en, et, in, it, la, li, na, ne, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in levantine plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in levantine 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.
levantine is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record two senses for levantine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
levantine is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing levantine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are levantine and valentine, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from levantine 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 levantine produce 209 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.