Hidden inside mavises sit massive and mavises, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
massive and mavises tie for the highest Scrabble score from mavises at 12 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in mavises: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mavises itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with massive. For points, the strongest plays are massive and mavises — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mavises produces exactly one six-letter word: mavies. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mavises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saves and vases. For points, the strongest plays are mavie and mavis — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mavises produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, mass and mess. For points, the strongest play is vims — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mavises turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ass, and sea. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mavises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in mavises plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mavises 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.
mavises 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.
mavises is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mavises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are massive and mavises, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mavises 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 mavises produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 16 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.