Hidden inside starve sit averts, starve, traves and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
averts, starve, traves and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from starve at 9 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in starve: three come from rearranging its letters, and starve itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starve. For points, the strongest plays are averts, starve, traves, and vaster — each worth 9 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 starve. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, stare, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are avers, avert, raves, saver, stave, trave, verst, verts, and vesta — 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 starve produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, rate, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are aver, aves, rave, revs, save, tavs, vars, vase, vast, vats, vera, vert, vest, and vets — 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 starve turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are ave, rev, sev, tav, var, vas, vat, and vet — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starve. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta, and te — 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 starve 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.
starve 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.
Dictionaries record five senses for starve. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
starve is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing starve unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are averts, starve, traves, and vaster, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from starve 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 starve produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.