Hidden inside savager sit ravages and savager, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ravages and savager tie for the highest Scrabble score from savager at 11 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in savager: one comes from rearranging its letters, and savager itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ravages and savager, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling savager turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with graves. For points, the strongest plays are agaves, graves, ravage, 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in savager. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, grave, and rages. For points, the strongest plays are agave, avgas, grave, 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 savager produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, area, ears, eras, gave, rage, and rags. 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 savager turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, gas, rag, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in savager. 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 savager 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.
savager 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.
savager is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing savager unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ravages and savager, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from savager 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 savager produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.