Hidden inside reveal sit laveer, leaver, reveal and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
laveer, leaver, reveal and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from reveal at 9 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in reveal: three come from rearranging its letters, and reveal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reveal. For points, the strongest plays are laveer, leaver, reveal, and vealer — 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reveal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leave. For points, the strongest plays are elver, laver, leave, lever, ravel, reave, revel, and velar — 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 reveal produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, real, and veal. For points, the strongest plays are aver, eave, ever, lave, leva, rave, vale, veal, veer, vela, and vera — 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 reveal turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, and eve. For points, the strongest plays are ave, eve, lav, lev, rev, var, and vee — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reveal. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ae, al, ar, el, er, la, 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 reveal 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.
reveal 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 three senses for reveal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
reveal is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reveal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are laveer, leaver, reveal, and vealer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reveal 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 reveal produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.