Unscramble LAVES and you have 51 words, LAVES itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. LAVES has 8 anagrams here, AVELS, LEVAS and SALVE among them, all scoring 8 like LAVES itself. 12 shorter words score 7, among them SAVE, VASE and VALE. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from LAVES by length: 9 with 5 letters, 18 with 4, 17 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of LAVES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with LA · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
What LAVES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. LAVES is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAVES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 51) | 43 | 51 | 40 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
8 of the 51 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AVELS, AVEL, VAES, SAV, VAE, SLAE, EAS and EA. 3 of the 51 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: LEVAS, LEVS and SEV.
With one more tile, the letters of LAVES spell the words below.