Hidden inside novane is one standout: novena, a six-letter play worth 9 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble NOVAEN, VONNEA or VANNOE and you get the same 6 letters as NOVANE: so the words from NOVANE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
NOVANE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to NOVENA (noun), a religious devotion lasting nine days, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
novena is the highest-scoring word from novane, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling novane produces exactly one six-letter word: novena. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling novane produces exactly one five-letter word: novae. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in novane produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with none and oven. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including oven, nave and nova.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in novane plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in novane 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 play from these letters is novena, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from novane 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 novane produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 11 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.