Hidden inside novitiates sit estivation and novitiates, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 362 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
estivation and novitiates tie for the highest Scrabble score from novitiates at 13 points. The top 10 of 362 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in novitiates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and novitiates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are estivation and novitiates, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling novitiates turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are novitiate and tantivies, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in novitiates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nativist, vanities, visitant, and vitiates, 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 novitiates produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invites, naivest, station, and tiniest. For points, the strongest plays are evasion, invites, naivest, natives, novates, stative, vainest, viniest, and vitiate — 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 novitiates turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invest, invite, native, navies, and vision. For points, the strongest plays are avions, avoset, envois, invest, invite, naives, native, navies, novate, ovines, savine, soviet, stevia, vision, and vittae — 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 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in novitiates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with naive, noise, notes, ovens, saint, stain, and state. For points, the strongest plays are avens, avion, aviso, envoi, ivies, naevi, naive, naves, novae, novas, oaves, ovate, ovens, ovine, savin, soave, stave, stove, vanes, veins, vents, vesta, vinas, vines, vinos, visit, vista, vitae, vitta, 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 novitiates produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east, eats, into, neat, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are aves, avos, nave, navs, nevi, nova, oven, save, tavs, vain, vane, vans, vase, vast, vats, vein, vena, vent, vest, veto, vets, vies, vina, vine, vino, vins, visa, vise, vita, voes, 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 novitiates turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, its, net, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are ave, avo, nav, ova, sev, tav, van, vas, vat, vet, via, 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in novitiates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, as, at, en, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, si, so, ta, 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 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in novitiates plus one additional letter.
novitiates 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 two senses for novitiates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
novitiates is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing novitiates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are estivation and novitiates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from novitiates 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 novitiates produce 362 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.