votives needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
votives is the highest-scoring word from votives, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in votives — and it is votives itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in votives produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with site, ties and toes. For points, the strongest play is vive — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling votives turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, set and sit. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including vet, sev and vie.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in votives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, so, and to. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including is, it and so.
Swap a single tile in votives and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
votives 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 one sense for votives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
votives is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing votives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is votives, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from votives 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 votives produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.