Unscramble BAVARDAGE and you have 148 words, BAVARDAGE itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. 9 letters: 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BAVARDAGE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 7, 9 with 6, 29 with 5, 52 with 4, 42 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 8 letters.
RAVAGED is the only one of the 7-letter words made with BAVARDAGE letters; it scores 12 points.
BRAVA and BRAVE are the top 5-letter words from BAVARDAGE, 10 points each. GRADE, BREAD and GRAVE will look familiar.
Among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BAVARDAGE, VERB leads with 9 points, then DERV and DEVA on 8. READ, AREA and GEAR are the familiar ones.
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by ADVERB, BRAVED and RAVAGED (12 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts BAVARDAGE, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAVARDAGE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 148) | 117 | 148 | 110 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BAVARDAGE, DAGABA, BEGAR, DERV, GARBE, GRAV, VADE, VERD, ABEAR, ARABA, DARGA, RADGE and 19 more, 31 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: BEGAD, DEBAG, VEGA, GARDA, AREG, BAE and DA, 7 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of BAVARDAGE spell the words below.