ravenous needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 213 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ravenous is the highest-scoring word from ravenous, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 213 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in ravenous — and it is ravenous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ravenous produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: nervous, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ravenous turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reason. For points, the strongest plays are naevus, ravens, savour, sovran, suaver, unrove, and venous — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ravenous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, nurse, ovens, and saner. For points, the strongest plays are arvos, avens, avers, eruvs, naves, nevus, novae, novas, oaves, ovens, overs, raven, raves, roven, roves, saver, savor, servo, soave, suave, uveas, vanes, varus, venus, and verso — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ravenous produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, earn, ears, eras, near, nose, and ones. For points, the strongest plays are arvo, aver, aves, avos, eruv, nave, navs, nova, oven, over, rave, revs, rove, save, uvea, vane, vans, vars, vase, vaus, vena, vera, and voes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ravenous turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, nor, one, our, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are ave, avo, nav, ova, rev, sev, van, var, vas, vau, and voe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ravenous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, no, on, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, as, en, er, es, na, ne, no, nu, oe, on, or, os, re, so, un, and us — each worth 2 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 ravenous and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
ravenous 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 3-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 ravenous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ravenous is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ravenous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ravenous, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ravenous 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 ravenous produce 213 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.