Hidden inside savage sit agaves and savage, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agaves and savage tie for the highest Scrabble score from savage at 10 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in savage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and savage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agaves and savage, 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in savage. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agave, avgas, and vegas, 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 savage produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, gave, save, and vase. For points, the strongest plays are gave and vega — 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 savage turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gas, and sea. For points, the strongest play is veg — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in savage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 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 savage 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.
savage 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 eight senses for savage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
savage is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing savage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agaves and savage, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from savage 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 savage produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.