161 words come out when you unscramble GLAIVES, starting with GLAIVES itself: 11 in Scrabble, 14 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 10: 4 of them, VISAGE, GAVELS and GLAIVE included. 7 letters: 3 vowels and 4 consonants. All 7 tiles of GLAIVES in one turn: 61 in Scrabble (11 + 50), 49 in Words With Friends (14 + 35).
Looking for vagiles, visagel, selviga, vilages or sevilga? They use the same letters as GLAIVES, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from GLAIVES by length: 1 with 7 letters, 8 with 6, 35 with 5, 60 with 4, 44 with 3 and 13 with 2.
4 of 35 5-letter words made with GLAIVES letters tie at 9 points; none scores more. GIVES, LIVES and ALIVE will look familiar.
Among 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble GLAIVES, the top score is 8, reached by 7. SAVE, SALE and LIVE are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of GLAIVES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with GL · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
The meaning of GLAIVES, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
GLAIVES works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLAIVES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 161) | 136 | 161 | 122 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 25 of them: AVELS, AVISE, SLIVE, VAGS, VALIS, VLIES, AVEL, VAES, VAG, VALI, VIAE, VIAS and 13 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: VEGAS, LEVAS, LEVIS, VEGA, VLEIS, LEVS, VLEI, SEV, SIGLA, AGS, GIS, LIAS and 2 more.
With one more tile, the letters of GLAIVES spell the words below.