Hidden inside tavernas sit tavernas and tsarevna, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 219 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tavernas and tsarevna tie for the highest Scrabble score from tavernas at 11 points. The top 10 of 219 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tavernas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tavernas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tavernas and tsarevna, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tavernas produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with servant and taverns. For points, the strongest plays are servant, taverna, taverns, and versant — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tavernas turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starve and tavern. For points, the strongest plays are averts, navars, ravens, savant, savate, starve, tavern, traves, varnas, 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 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tavernas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, earns, rates, rents, saner, stare, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are avant, avast, avens, avers, avert, navar, naves, raven, raves, saver, stave, trave, vanes, varas, varna, vents, 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 tavernas produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, area, arts, earn, ears, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are aver, aves, nave, navs, rave, revs, save, tavs, vane, vans, vara, vars, vasa, vase, vast, vats, vena, vent, 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 tavernas turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ava, ave, nav, rev, sev, tav, van, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tavernas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, na, ne, 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 tavernas and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
tavernas 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
tavernas is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tavernas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tavernas and tsarevna, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tavernas 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 tavernas produce 219 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.