Hidden inside relevant sit levanter and relevant, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 194 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
levanter and relevant tie for the highest Scrabble score from relevant at 11 points. The top 10 of 194 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in relevant: one comes from rearranging its letters, and relevant itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relevant. For points, the strongest plays are levanter and relevant — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in relevant produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eternal and veteran. For points, the strongest plays are nervate, ventral, and veteran — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling relevant turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neater, relate and reveal. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including reveal, tavern and travel.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relevant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and eaten. For points, 22 words tie at 8 points, including event, leave and nerve.
Rearranging the letters in relevant produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, even and ever. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including even, ever and veal.
Unscrambling relevant turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are and art. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including eve, van and vet.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relevant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including an, at and ae.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in relevant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in relevant 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.
relevant 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 one sense for relevant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
relevant is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relevant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are levanter and relevant, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relevant 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 relevant produce 194 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.