Hidden inside locave sit alcove and coeval, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LOCAVE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ALCOVE and COEVAL.
alcove and coeval tie for the highest Scrabble score from locave at 11 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling locave turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alcove and coeval, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locave. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calve, clave, clove, and vocal, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in locave produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave, cola, love, and veal. For points, the strongest plays are cave and cove — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling locave turns up 18 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is vac, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locave. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ae, al, el and 3 more, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in locave plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in locave 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alcove and coeval, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from locave 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 locave produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.