Hidden inside rloav sit valor and volar, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ROLVA, ALORV or OARLV and you get the same 5 letters as RLOAV: so the words from RLOAV listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
RLOAV isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to VALOR and VOLAR.
valor and volar tie for the highest Scrabble score from rloav at 8 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rloav. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are valor and volar, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rloav turns up 9 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avo, lav, ova, and var, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in rloav and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are valor and volar, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rloav 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 rloav produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.