Hidden inside cavalry sit calvary and cavalry, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 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.
calvary and cavalry tie for the highest Scrabble score from cavalry at 15 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in cavalry: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cavalry itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calvary and cavalry, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cavalry. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is vacay, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cavalry produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clay and lava. For points, the strongest play is cavy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cavalry turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with car, cry, and lay. For points, the strongest plays are cay, cry, and vac — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cavalry. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — 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 cavalry 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.
cavalry 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 cavalry. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
cavalry is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cavalry unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calvary and cavalry, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cavalry 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 cavalry produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.