Hidden inside pavers sit pavers and vapers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pavers and vapers tie for the highest Scrabble score from pavers at 11 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in pavers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pavers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pavers and vapers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pavers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spare. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including parve, paver and paves.
Rearranging the letters in pavers produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears and eras. For points, the strongest plays are pave, perv, and vape — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pavers turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ear. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including ave, rev and sev.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pavers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pavers 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.
pavers 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.
pavers is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pavers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pavers and vapers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pavers 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 pavers produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.