rauwolfia needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rauwolfia is the highest-scoring word from rauwolfia, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in rauwolfia — and it is rauwolfia itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rauwolfia produces exactly one seven-letter word: airflow. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rauwolfia produces exactly one six-letter word: foliar. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rauwolfia. If a familiar word is all you need, start with awful. For points, the strongest plays are awful and woful — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rauwolfia produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fail, fair and flaw. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including flaw, flow and wolf.
Unscrambling rauwolfia turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, far and flu. For points, 19 words tie at 6 points, including far, flu and for.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rauwolfia. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aw, if and of. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including aw, if and of.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in rauwolfia plus one additional letter.
rauwolfia 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 two senses for rauwolfia. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
rauwolfia is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rauwolfia unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rauwolfia, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rauwolfia 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 rauwolfia produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 14 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.