starveling needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1240 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
starveling is the highest-scoring word from starveling, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1240 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in starveling — and it is starveling itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling starveling turns up 10 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with traveling and triangles. For points, the strongest plays are grievants, ravelings, slavering, traveling, and vintagers — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 54 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starveling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altering, angriest, genitals, relating, starving, stealing, and strangle. For points, the strongest plays are averting, grievant, leavings, raveling, sleaving, starving, valeting, vinegars, vintager, vintages, and virgates — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in starveling produces 151 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, gravies, largest, lasting, leaving, naivest, and nastier. For points, the strongest plays are glaives, gravels, gravest, gravies, grivets, leaving, ravings, reaving, rivages, salving, serving, slaving, staving, vealing, verglas, versing, vesting, vinegar, vintage, and virgate — 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 starveling turns up 267 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, alerts, aliens, alters, angels, angers, and angles. For points, the strongest plays are ganevs, gavels, givens, givers, glaive, gravel, graven, graves, grivet, laving, raving, rivage, saving, vagile, vegans, virgae, virgas, and visage — 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 328 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starveling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aisle, alert, alien, alive, alter, and angel. For points, the strongest plays are ganev, gavel, given, giver, gives, grave, vangs, vegan, vegas, vigas, and virga — 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 starveling produces 279 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, arts, lane, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are vagi, vang, vega, viga, vigs, gave, and give — 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 starveling turns up 124 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starveling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in starveling plus one additional letter.
starveling 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 one sense for starveling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
starveling is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing starveling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is starveling, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from starveling 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 starveling produce 1240 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 10 nine-letter words, 54 eight-letter words, 151 seven-letter words, 267 six-letter words, 328 five-letter words, 279 four-letter words, 124 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.