Hidden inside vader sit drave and raved, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
VADER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DRAVE and RAVED.
drave and raved tie for the highest Scrabble score from vader at 9 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vader. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drave and raved, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in vader and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drave and raved, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from vader 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 vader produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.