novelties needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 356 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
novelties is the highest-scoring word from novelties, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 356 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in novelties — and it is novelties itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in novelties. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are novelise, novelist, and veinlets, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in novelties produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evilest and violent. For points, the strongest plays are elevons, evilest, lievest, loviest, solvent, tensive, veinlet, velites, violent, and violets — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling novelties turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with events, invest, listen, novels, olives, silent, and stolen. For points, the strongest plays are elevon, envies, envois, events, evites, invest, levies, levins, livens, livest, nieves, novels, olives, ovines, slieve, sloven, snivel, soviet, svelte, venose, vetoes, vilest, violet, voiles, and voltes — 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 94 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in novelties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves, event, lines, lions, lives, loves, and noise. For points, the strongest plays are elven, elves, envoi, evens, event, evils, evite, levin, levis, lieve, liven, lives, loves, neves, nieve, novel, olive, ovens, ovine, seven, sieve, solve, stove, veils, veins, vents, vines, vinos, viols, vleis, voile, voles, volte, volti, volts, and votes — 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 novelties produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, even, eves, evil, into, lent, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are even, eves, evil, levo, levs, live, love, neve, nevi, oven, vees, veil, vein, vent, vest, veto, vets, vies, vile, vine, vino, vins, viol, vise, vlei, voes, vole, volt, and vote — 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 novelties turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, its, let, lie, lit, lot, and net. For points, the strongest plays are eve, lev, sev, vee, vet, vie, vin, vis, and voe — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in novelties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are el, en, es, et, in, is, it, li, lo, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, si, so, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in novelties plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in novelties and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
novelties 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 four senses for novelties. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
novelties is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing novelties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is novelties, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from novelties 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 novelties produce 356 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 94 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.