pavilions needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 235 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pavilions is the highest-scoring word from pavilions, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 235 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pavilions — and it is pavilions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pavilions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pavilion, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pavilions produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: violins, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pavilions turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pianos, violin, and vision. For points, the strongest plays are pavins and spavin — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pavilions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lions, loans and nails. For points, the strongest plays are pavin and pavis — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pavilions produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, laps and lion. For points, the strongest play is spiv — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pavilions turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lap, lip and nap. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including van, avo and lav.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pavilions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and in. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in pavilions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pavilions and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
pavilions 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 pavilions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
pavilions is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pavilions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pavilions, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pavilions 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 pavilions produce 235 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.