unsavory needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unsavory is the highest-scoring word from unsavory, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in unsavory — and it is unsavory itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unsavory produces exactly one seven-letter word: savoury. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unsavory turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is savory, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unsavory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with yours. For points, the strongest plays are ovary and savoy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unsavory produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, navy and ours. For points, the strongest plays are navy and vary — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unsavory turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, nor and our. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including any, say and soy.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unsavory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in unsavory plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in unsavory 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.
unsavory 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 unsavory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
unsavory is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unsavory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unsavory, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unsavory 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 unsavory produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.