Unscramble LAVE and you have 17 words, LAVE itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. It has 5 anagrams, each with the same 7 points: AVEL, LEVA, VALE, VEAL and VELA. It has 4 letters, 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from LAVE by length: 6 with 4 letters, 6 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of LAVE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with LA · ending in VE · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to LAVE:
The meaning of LAVE, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LAVE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAVE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 17) | 14 | 17 | 14 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AVEL, VAE and EA, 3 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of LAVE plus a single extra one.