palavering needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 500 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
palavering is the highest-scoring word from palavering, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 500 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in palavering — and it is palavering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palavering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airplane. For points, the strongest play is repaving — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in palavering produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaping, leaving, plainer, and vaginae. For points, the strongest plays are palaver and prevail — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling palavering turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with naiver and vagina. For points, the strongest plays are paving and vaping — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 137 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palavering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, alien and alive. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including parve, pavan and paver.
Rearranging the letters in palavering produces 152 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, lane and lava. For points, the strongest plays are pave, perv, and vape — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling palavering turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ape. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palavering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
palavering 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
palavering is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing palavering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is palavering, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from palavering 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 palavering produce 500 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 137 five-letter words, 152 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.