Hidden inside levantines sit levantines and valentines, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 554 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
levantines and valentines tie for the highest Scrabble score from levantines at 13 points. The top 10 of 554 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in levantines: one comes from rearranging its letters, and levantines itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with valentines. For points, the strongest plays are levantines and valentines — 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 levantines turns up 3 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with valentine. For points, the strongest plays are levantine, valentine, and venetians — 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 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in levantines. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elatives, enlivens, leaviest, naivetes, vaseline, vealiest, veinlets, venetian, and ventails, 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 levantines produces 43 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evilest, intense, invents, and naivest. For points, the strongest plays are alevins, elative, enliven, enslave, estival, evilest, invents, leavens, levants, lievest, naivest, naivete, natives, tensive, vainest, valines, veinlet, velites, venines, 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 levantines turns up 98 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, events, insane, invent, invest, leaves, and listen. For points, the strongest plays are alevin, alvine, anvils, envies, events, evites, invent, invest, leaven, leaves, levant, levies, levins, livens, livest, naives, native, navels, navies, nieves, savine, silvae, silvan, sleave, slieve, snivel, stevia, svelte, valets, valine, valise, veenas, veinal, velate, venial, venine, venins, vestal, vilest, vinals, vineal, and vitals — 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 149 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in levantines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, alive, eaten, elves, event, and lanes. For points, the strongest plays are alive, anvil, avens, eaves, elven, elves, evens, event, evils, evite, laves, leave, levas, levin, levis, lieve, liven, lives, naevi, naive, navel, naves, neves, nieve, nival, salve, savin, selva, seven, sieve, silva, slave, stave, vails, vales, valet, valse, vanes, veals, veena, veils, veins, venae, venal, venin, vents, vesta, vials, vinal, vinas, vines, vista, vitae, vital, and vleis — 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 levantines produces 151 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, lane, last, late, lean, lent, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are aves, lave, lavs, leva, levs, live, nave, navs, neve, nevi, save, tavs, vail, vain, vale, vane, vans, vase, vast, vats, veal, vees, veil, vein, vela, vena, vent, vest, vets, vial, vies, vile, vina, vine, vins, visa, vise, vita, vlei, eave, even, eves, 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 levantines turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, eve, its, let, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are ave, eve, lav, lev, nav, sev, tav, van, vas, vat, vee, vet, via, vie, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in levantines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, an, as, at, el, en, es, et, in, is, it, la, li, na, ne, si, 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.
levantines 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 levantines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
levantines is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing levantines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are levantines and valentines, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from levantines 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 levantines produce 554 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 43 seven-letter words, 98 six-letter words, 149 five-letter words, 151 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.