scavenger needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 329 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
scavenger is the highest-scoring word from scavenger, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 329 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in scavenger — and it is scavenger itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scavenger. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is scavenge, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in scavenger produces 12 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caverns and cravens, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scavenger turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, angers and carves. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including carves, carven and cavern.
There are 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scavenger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, anger and cages. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including carve, caves and caver.
Rearranging the letters in scavenger produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, cage and cans. For points, the strongest plays are cave and vacs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scavenger turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and can. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scavenger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in scavenger plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in scavenger 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.
scavenger 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for scavenger. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
scavenger is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scavenger unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is scavenger, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from scavenger 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 scavenger produce 329 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.