Hidden inside savoriest sit savoriest and travoises, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 460 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
savoriest and travoises tie for the highest Scrabble score from savoriest at 12 points. The top 10 of 460 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in savoriest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and savoriest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are savoriest and travoises, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in savoriest. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are savories, travoise, viatores and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in savoriest produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starves and stories. For points, 17 words tie at 10 points, including starves, avosets and ovaries.
Unscrambling savoriest turns up 79 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raises, resist and roasts. For points, 33 words tie at 9 points, including starve, staves and voters.
There are 129 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in savoriest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise, rates and rests. For points, 41 words tie at 8 points, including saves, vases and vests.
Rearranging the letters in savoriest produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and ears. For points, 29 words tie at 7 points, including over, save and vase.
Unscrambling savoriest turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including vet, ave and avo.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in savoriest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and is. For points, 21 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in savoriest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in savoriest and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
savoriest 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
savoriest is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing savoriest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are savoriest and travoises, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from savoriest 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 savoriest produce 460 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 79 six-letter words, 129 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.