Hidden inside pervade sit deprave, pervade, and repaved, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deprave, pervade, and repaved tie for the highest Scrabble score from pervade at 13 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in pervade: two come from rearranging its letters, and pervade 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 deprave, pervade, and repaved, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pervade turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is paveed, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pervade. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paved and vaped, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pervade produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear and deep. For points, the strongest plays are pave, perv, vape, and veep — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pervade turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ear. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pervade. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pervade plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pervade 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.
pervade 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for pervade. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pervade is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pervade unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deprave, pervade, and repaved, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pervade 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 pervade produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.