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Unscramble CARVING: 66 words from the letters C A R V I N G

CARVING is an anagram of CRAVING. The letters make 66 words in total, 36 of them common.

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7-letter words using every letter (2)

Shorter words from CARVING

3-letter words (20)

  • van6 points
  • via6 points
  • can5 points
  • car5 points
  • air3 points
  • ran3 points
  • arc5 points
  • gin4 points
  • rag4 points
  • nag4 points
  • rig4 points
  • vac8 points
  • gar4 points
  • gan4 points
  • ain3 points
  • ria3 points
  • vig7 points
  • var6 points
  • ani3 points
  • rin3 points

6-letter words (5)

  • raving10 points
  • caring9 points
  • racing9 points
  • caving12 points
  • arcing9 points

5-letter words (11)

  • vicar10 points
  • grain6 points
  • acing8 points
  • cigar8 points
  • cairn7 points
  • virga9 points
  • ravin8 points
  • vinca10 points
  • invar8 points
  • naric7 points
  • garni6 points

4-letter words (22)

  • gain5 points
  • ring5 points
  • rain4 points
  • vain7 points
  • rang5 points
  • crag7 points
  • grin5 points
  • narc6 points
  • gran5 points
  • vagi8 points
  • vang8 points
  • vair7 points
  • vina7 points
  • cain6 points
  • ragi5 points
  • viga8 points
  • carn6 points
  • agin5 points
  • girn5 points
  • gnar5 points
  • airn4 points
  • rani4 points

2-letter words (6)

  • an2 points
  • in2 points
  • ai2 points
  • ag3 points
  • ar2 points
  • na2 points

Quick facts

  • Total words: 66
  • By usage: 31 very common, 5 common, 30 rare

Highest scoring (classic tiles)

  1. carving 13
  2. craving 13
  3. caving 12
  4. raving 10
  5. vicar 10
  6. vinca 10
  7. arcing 9
  8. caring 9
  9. racing 9
  10. virga 9

Most common

  1. van
  2. via
  3. can
  4. car
  5. gain
  6. ring
  7. rain
  8. air
  9. ran
  10. an

Definitions

carving (noun)
A sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape.
craving (noun)
An intense desire for some particular thing.

Here is everything you can make from the letters of CARVING: 66 words in total, including 1 full-length anagrams. The longest words are worth the most in tile games, so they are listed first; the short words at the end are the ones that fit tight spots on the board. Words with their own page link through to their own list of sub-words, which makes it easy to explore related racks.

How to use this page

Start at the top for the longest and highest-scoring words, work down for shorter plays, and use the search box to test variations with a blank or a different letter.

Tips

Many of the words on this page differ from each other by a single letter at the front or back. Those hooks are the cheapest plays in the game: you lay down one tile, extend an existing word, and score both the new word and anything you formed in parallel. Look at the shorter words in this list and ask which one-letter additions turn them into the longer ones. S, D, E and R at the end and A, S and B at the front do most of the work.

Questions

Is CARVING an anagram of another word?

Yes. CARVING is an anagram of CRAVING. The exact-length anagrams are listed first on this page.

What if my rack has a blank?

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