revenant 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, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
revenant is the highest-scoring word from revenant, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in revenant — and it is revenant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in revenant produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with veteran. For points, the strongest plays are nervate and veteran — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling revenant turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neater and tavern. For points, the strongest plays are tavern, vanner, and venter — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in revenant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, enter and event. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including event, nerve and never.
Rearranging the letters in revenant produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, even and ever. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including even, ever and aver.
Unscrambling revenant turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are and art. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including eve, van and vet.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in revenant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in revenant 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.
revenant 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 four senses for revenant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
revenant is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing revenant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is revenant, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from revenant 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 revenant produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.