60 words come out when you unscramble CALVARY, starting with CALVARY itself: 15 in Scrabble, 17 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 15 points: CAVALRY. CARVY and VACAY are the best of the shorter words, at 13 points. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of CALVARY at once for 65 in Scrabble (15 + 50) or 52 in Words With Friends (17 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from CALVARY split into 2 with 7 letters, 10 with 5, 20 with 4, 22 with 3 and 6 with 2. None has 6 letters.
CAVY scores highest among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble CALVARY at 12 points, ahead of VARY on 10 and ACYL on 9. CLAY, LAVA and LACY are the ones most people know.
These 6 words have the length of CALVARY, with one letter different:
More 7-letter words: starting with CA · ending in RY · all 7-letter words
CALVARY first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept CALVARY, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALVARY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 60) | 46 | 60 | 41 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 14 of them: CARVY, CRAY, VLY, CLY, LAVRA, ALAY, AVAL, LYRA, RYAL, YAAR, ARY, RACA and 2 more. Words With Friends* skips 5 of them: VACAY, LYCRA, CAVA, ALVAR and CAL.