pavilion needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pavilion is the highest-scoring word from pavilion, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in pavilion — and it is pavilion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pavilion produces exactly one six-letter word: violin. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pavilion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with piano and plain. For points, the strongest play is pavin — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pavilion produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lion, loan and nail. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including nova, oval and vail.
Unscrambling pavilion turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lap, lip and nap. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including van, avo and lav.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pavilion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in pavilion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pavilion and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
pavilion 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for pavilion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pavilion is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pavilion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pavilion, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pavilion 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 pavilion produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 15 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.