Hidden inside stav sit tavs, vast, and vats, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble AVST, SAVT or SVTA and you get the same 4 letters as STAV: so the words from STAV listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
STAV isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to TAVS, VAST and VATS.
tavs, vast, and vats tie for the highest Scrabble score from stav at 7 points. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in stav produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tavs, vast, and vats, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in stav and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tavs, vast, and vats, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stav 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 stav produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.