traversal needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 282 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
traversal is the highest-scoring word from traversal, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 282 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in traversal — and it is traversal itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in traversal produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with travels. For points, the strongest plays are starver, travels, varlets, and vestral — 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 traversal turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, altars, alters, arrest, rarest, starve, and travel. For points, the strongest plays are alvars, averts, larvae, larvas, lavers, ravels, ravers, salver, savate, serval, slaver, starve, travel, traves, valets, varlet, vaster, velars, versal, and vestal — 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 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traversal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, altar, alter, areas, laser, later, and lavas. For points, the strongest plays are alvar, arval, avast, avers, avert, larva, lavas, laver, laves, levas, ravel, raver, raves, salve, saver, selva, slave, stave, trave, vales, valet, valse, varas, vasal, veals, velar, 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 traversal produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and last. For points, the strongest plays are aver, aves, lava, lave, lavs, leva, levs, rave, revs, save, tavs, vale, vara, vars, vasa, vase, vast, vats, veal, vela, 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 traversal turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and let. For points, the strongest plays are ava, ave, lav, lev, rev, sev, tav, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traversal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, la, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in traversal plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in traversal and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
traversal 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for traversal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
traversal is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing traversal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is traversal, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from traversal 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 traversal produce 282 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.