savant needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
savant is the highest-scoring word from savant, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in savant — and it is savant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in savant. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avant and avast, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in savant produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, tans, and vans. For points, the strongest plays are navs, tavs, vans, vasa, vast, and vats — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling savant turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, sat, tan, and van. For points, the strongest plays are ava, nav, tav, van, vas, and vat — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in savant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, an, as, at, na, and ta — each worth 2 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 savant 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.
savant 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 one sense for savant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
savant is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing savant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is savant, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from savant 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 savant produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.