Hidden inside ravelings sit ravelings and slavering, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 640 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ravelings and slavering tie for the highest Scrabble score from ravelings at 13 points. The top 10 of 640 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ravelings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ravelings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ravelings and slavering, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ravelings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are leavings, raveling, sleaving, and vinegars, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ravelings produces 43 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, gravies, leaving, sealing, and serving. For points, the strongest plays are glaives, gravels, gravies, leaving, ravings, reaving, rivages, salving, serving, slaving, vealing, verglas, versing, and vinegar — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ravelings turns up 127 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels, angers, angles, easing, graves, and learns. For points, the strongest plays are ganevs, gavels, givens, givers, glaive, gravel, graven, graves, laving, raving, rivage, saving, vagile, vegans, virgae, virgas, and visage — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 184 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ravelings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, alive, angel, anger, angle, and earns. For points, the strongest plays are ganev, gavel, given, giver, gives, grave, vangs, vegan, vegas, vigas, and virga — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ravelings produces 168 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, lane, lean, legs, liar, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are gave, give, vagi, vang, vega, viga, and vigs — 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 ravelings turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, era, gal, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ravelings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ravelings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ravelings 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.
ravelings 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 ravelings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
ravelings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ravelings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ravelings and slavering, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ravelings 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 ravelings produce 640 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 43 seven-letter words, 127 six-letter words, 184 five-letter words, 168 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.