Unscramble ELVA and you get 17 words; ELVA itself is not one of them. 6 share the top score of 7, among them VALE, VEAL and VELA. 4 shorter words score 6, among them LEV, LAV and AVE. The 4 letters split into 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from ELVA split into 6 with 4 letters, 6 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of ELVA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with VA · ending in LE · all 4-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with LAVE, LEVA, VALE, VEAL and VELA (7 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
ELVA is not playable as it is in any of the three, yet its letters form 17 words that are.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELVA itself | No | No | No |
| Answers accepted (of 17) | 14 | 17 | 14 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
3 of the 17 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AVEL, VAE and EA.
These 12 words take every letter of ELVA plus a single extra one.