vagaries needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vagaries is the highest-scoring word from vagaries, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in vagaries — and it is vagaries itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in vagaries produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gravies. For points, the strongest plays are gravies, ravages, rivages, and savager — each 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 vagaries turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with graves. For points, the strongest plays are agaves, givers, graves, ravage, rivage, savage, virgae, virgas, and visage — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vagaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, gives, grave, rages, and raise. For points, the strongest plays are agave, avgas, giver, gives, grave, vegas, vigas, and virga — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in vagaries produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, area, ears, eras, gave, and give. For points, the strongest plays are gave, give, vagi, vega, viga, and vigs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vagaries turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, era, gas, and rag. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vagaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in vagaries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in vagaries and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
vagaries 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
vagaries is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vagaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vagaries, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vagaries 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 vagaries produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.