Hidden inside levees sit levees and sleeve, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 22 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
levees and sleeve tie for the highest Scrabble score from levees at 9 points. The top 10 of 22 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in levees: one comes from rearranging its letters, and levees itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sleeve. For points, the strongest plays are levees and sleeve — 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 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in levees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves. For points, the strongest plays are elves and levee — 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 levees produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else and eves. For points, the strongest plays are eves, levs, and vees — 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 levees turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve and see. For points, the strongest plays are eve, lev, sev, and vee — 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 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in levees. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are el and es, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in levees and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
levees 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 levees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
levees is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing levees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are levees and sleeve, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from levees 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 levees produce 22 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.