ottava needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ottava is the highest-scoring word from ottava, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in ottava — and it is ottava itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ottava turns up 10 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ava, avo, ova and 2 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in ottava plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ottava 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.
ottava 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ottava is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ottava unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ottava, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ottava 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 ottava produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 10 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.