Hidden inside waives sit waives and wavies, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
waives and wavies tie for the highest Scrabble score from waives at 12 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in waives: one comes from rearranging its letters, and waives itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are waives and wavies, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with views, waves, and wives. For points, the strongest plays are swive, views, waive, waves, and wives — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in waives produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with save, vase, view, wave, and wise. For points, the strongest plays are vaws, view, wave, and wive — 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 waives turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saw, sea, sew, and was. For points, the strongest play is vaw — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw, ew, is, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in waives and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
waives 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 1-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 waives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
waives is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are waives and wavies, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from waives 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 waives produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.