devotes needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
devotes is the highest-scoring word from devotes, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in devotes — and it is devotes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling devotes turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with devote. For points, the strongest plays are devest, devote, stoved, vested, and vetoed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devotes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with voted and votes. For points, the strongest plays are doves and voted — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in devotes produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dots, dove, eves, seed, toes, and vest. For points, the strongest plays are devs and dove — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling devotes turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, eve, see, set, toe, and vet. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devotes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in devotes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in devotes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
devotes 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 1-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 devotes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
devotes is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing devotes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is devotes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from devotes 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 devotes produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.