Hidden inside starved sit adverts and starved, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 166 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adverts and starved tie for the highest Scrabble score from starved at 11 points. The top 10 of 166 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in starved: one comes from rearranging its letters, and starved itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starved. For points, the strongest plays are adverts and starved — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling starved turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stared, starve, and trades. For points, the strongest plays are advert and staved — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starved. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dears, rates, reads, saved, and stare. For points, the strongest plays are devas, drave, raved, and saved — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in starved produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare, date, dear, ears, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are deva and devs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling starved turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starved. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 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 starved and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
starved 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 two senses for starved. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
starved is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing starved unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adverts and starved, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from starved 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 starved produce 166 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.