Hidden inside loved sit loved and voled, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loved and voled tie for the highest Scrabble score from loved at 9 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in loved: one comes from rearranging its letters, and loved itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loved. For points, the strongest plays are loved and voled — 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 loved produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dove and love. For points, the strongest plays are dove and veld — 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 loved turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led and old. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loved. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — 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 loved and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
loved 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 one sense for loved. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
loved is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing loved unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are loved and voled, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from loved 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 loved produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.