Hidden inside naives sit naives, navies, and savine, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
naives, navies, and savine tie for the highest Scrabble score from naives at 9 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in naives: two come from rearranging its letters, and naives itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with navies. For points, the strongest plays are naives, navies, and savine — 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in naives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with naive and veins. For points, the strongest plays are avens, naevi, naive, naves, savin, vanes, veins, vinas, and vines — 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 naives produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sane, save, vans, vase, and vein. For points, the strongest plays are aves, nave, navs, nevi, save, vain, vane, vans, vase, vein, vena, vies, vina, vine, vins, visa, and vise — 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 naives turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sea, sin, and van. For points, the strongest plays are ave, nav, sev, van, vas, via, vie, vin, and vis — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in naives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, as, en, es, in, is, na, ne, and si — 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 naives 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.
naives 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 five senses for naives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
naives is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing naives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are naives, navies, and savine, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from naives 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 naives produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.