traversals needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 364 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
traversals is the highest-scoring word from traversals, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 364 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in traversals — and it is traversals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling traversals produces exactly one nine-letter word: traversal. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling traversals produces exactly one eight-letter word: starvers. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in traversals produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests, starves, and travels. For points, the strongest plays are salvers, savates, servals, slavers, starver, starves, travels, varlets, versals, vestals, 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 traversals turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, altars, alters, arrest, lasers, rarest, and slaves. For points, the strongest plays are alvars, averts, larvae, larvas, lavers, ravels, ravers, salver, salves, savate, savers, selvas, serval, slaver, slaves, starve, staves, travel, traves, valets, valses, varlet, vassal, vaster, velars, versal, versts, vestal, and vestas — 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 103 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traversals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, altar, alter, areas, laser, lasts, and later. For points, the strongest plays are alvar, arval, avast, avers, avert, larva, lavas, laver, laves, levas, ravel, raver, raves, salve, saver, saves, selva, slave, stave, trave, vales, valet, valse, varas, vasal, vases, vasts, veals, velar, verst, verts, vesta, and vests — 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 traversals produces 95 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, sevs, 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 traversals turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ass, ate, ear, eat, and era. 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 traversals. 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 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in traversals plus one additional letter.
traversals 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 traversals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
traversals is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing traversals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is traversals, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from traversals 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 traversals produce 364 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 24 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 103 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.