Hidden inside rlvaa sit alvar, arval, and larva, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble RVAAL, AAVRL or VARLA and you get the same 5 letters as RLVAA: so the words from RLVAA listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
RLVAA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ALVAR, ARVAL and LARVA.
alvar, arval, and larva tie for the highest Scrabble score from rlvaa at 8 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rlvaa. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alvar, arval, and larva, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rlvaa. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aa, al, ar, and la, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in rlvaa 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 alvar, arval, and larva, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rlvaa 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 rlvaa produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.