Hidden inside staver 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.
STAVER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to AVERTS, STARVE, TRAVES and VASTER.
averts, starve, traves and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from staver at 9 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling staver turns up 4 six-letter words. 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.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staver. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, stare, and tears. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including avers, avert and raves.
Rearranging the letters in staver produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including save, vase and vest.
Unscrambling staver turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including vet, ave and rev.
17 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in staver plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in staver 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are averts, starve, traves, and vaster, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from staver 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 staver 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.