Hidden inside pavisse sit passive, pavises, pavisse and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
passive, pavises, pavisse and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from pavisse at 12 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in pavisse: three come from rearranging its letters, and pavisse itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are passive, pavises, pavisse, and spavies, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pavisse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saves, spies, and vases. For points, the strongest plays are paves, pavis, spivs, and vapes — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pavisse produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, pass and peas. For points, the strongest plays are pave, spiv, and vape — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pavisse turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass and pea. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including ave, sev and vas.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pavisse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pavisse plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pavisse and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
pavisse is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
pavisse is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pavisse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are passive, pavises, pavisse, and spavies, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pavisse 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 pavisse produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.