Hidden inside ravine sit naiver, ravine, and vainer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
naiver, ravine, and vainer tie for the highest Scrabble score from ravine at 9 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in ravine: two come from rearranging its letters, and ravine itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with naiver. For points, the strongest plays are naiver, ravine, and vainer — 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ravine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with naive. For points, the strongest plays are aiver, invar, naevi, naive, raven, ravin, and riven — 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 ravine produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near, rain, and vein. For points, the strongest plays are aver, nave, nevi, rave, rive, vain, vair, vane, vein, vena, vera, vier, vina, and vine — 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 ravine turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ear, era, ran, and van. For points, the strongest plays are ave, nav, rev, van, var, via, vie, and vin — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ravine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, ar, en, er, in, na, ne, and re — 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 ravine and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ravine 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 ravine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ravine is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ravine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are naiver, ravine, and vainer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ravine 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 ravine produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.