savory needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
savory is the highest-scoring word from savory, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in savory — and it is savory itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in savory. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ovary and savoy, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in savory produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with soya. For points, the strongest play is vary — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling savory turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with say and soy. For points, the strongest plays are avo, ays, ova, ray, rya, say, soy, var, vas, yar, and yas — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in savory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, ay, or, oy, so, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in savory plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in savory 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.
savory 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in savory carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seven senses for savory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
savory is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing savory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is savory, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from savory 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 savory produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.