36 words come out when you unscramble LOAVE, starting with LOAVE itself: 8 in Scrabble, 10 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 8 points: LAEVO and VOLAE. 12 shorter words score 7, among them LOVE, OVAL and VALE. The 5 letters split into 3 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from LOAVE by length: 3 with 5 letters, 14 with 4, 12 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of LOAVE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with LO · ending in VE · all 5-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with LAEVO (8 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts LOAVE, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOAVE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 36) | 27 | 36 | 27 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LOAVE, VOLAE, AVEL, OVEL, VOLA, EVO, VAE, VOL and EA, 9 in all.
These 8 words take every letter of LOAVE plus a single extra one.