Unscramble RAVE and you have 17 words, RAVE itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 7 points: AVER, VARE and VERA. Among the shorter answers, 5 reach 6 points, VAR, REV and AVE among them. 4 letters: 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 RAVE split into 4 with 4 letters, 8 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of RAVE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with RA · ending in VE · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to RAVE:
RAVE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept RAVE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAVE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 17) | 13 | 17 | 13 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 4 of them: VARE, RAV, VAE and EA.
Each word below uses all the letters of RAVE and one more.