lovages needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lovages is the highest-scoring word from lovages, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in lovages — and it is lovages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lovages turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gloves and loaves. For points, the strongest plays are gavels, gloves, and lovage — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lovages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glove, goals, loves, slave, solve, and veals. For points, the strongest plays are gavel, glove, vegas, and vlogs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lovages produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also, egos, gals, gave, goal, and goes. For points, the strongest plays are gave, vega, vlog, and vogs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lovages turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ego, gal, gas, leg, and log. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lovages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, go, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 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 lovages 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.
lovages 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 two senses for lovages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
lovages is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lovages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lovages, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lovages 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 lovages produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.