Unscramble ALVAR to get 19 words. ALVAR itself is a real word: 8 points on a Scrabble board, 10 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 8 points: ARVAL, LARVA and LAVRA. LAVA, VARA and AVAL are the best of the shorter words, at 7 points. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ALVAR by length: 4 with 5 letters, 4 with 4, 7 with 3 and 4 with 2.
Keep every letter of ALVAR but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with AL · ending in AR · all 5-letter words
What ALVAR means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: ALVAR is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALVAR itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 19) | 16 | 19 | 15 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 3 of them: LAVRA, AVAL and RAV. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: ALVAR.
Each word below uses all the letters of ALVAR and one more.