Hidden inside vampire sit vampier and vampire, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vampier and vampire tie for the highest Scrabble score from vampire at 14 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in vampire: one comes from rearranging its letters, and vampire itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with vampire. For points, the strongest plays are vampier and vampire — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vampire turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are revamp and vamper, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vampire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prime. For points, the strongest plays are mavie, parve, paver, vaper, and viper — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in vampire produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pair and ramp. For points, the strongest play is vamp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vampire turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ape, are, arm, ear, and era. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vampire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in vampire and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
vampire is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for vampire. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
vampire is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vampire unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are vampier and vampire, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from vampire earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in vampire produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.