Hidden inside paving sit paving and vaping, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paving and vaping tie for the highest Scrabble score from paving at 12 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in paving: one comes from rearranging its letters, and paving 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 paving and vaping, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paving. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pavin, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in paving produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain and pain. For points, the strongest plays are vagi, vang, and viga — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling paving turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gap, nag, nap, pan, pig, pin, and van. For points, the strongest play is vig — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in paving 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.
paving 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 three senses for paving. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
paving is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are paving and vaping, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from paving 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 paving produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.