vagueness needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vagueness is the highest-scoring word from vagueness, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in vagueness — and it is vagueness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in vagueness produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with avenues. For points, the strongest plays are avenges and genevas — 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 vagueness turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anuses, avenue, and vegans. For points, the strongest plays are avenge, ganevs, geneva, vegans, and venges — 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vagueness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, gases, genes, guess, saves, sense, and seven. For points, the strongest plays are ganev, vague, vagus, vangs, vegan, vegas, veges, and venge — 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 vagueness produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, anus, ease, even, eves, gave, and gene. For points, the strongest plays are gave, guvs, vang, vega, and vugs — 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 vagueness turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ass, eve, gas, gee, gun, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are guv, veg, and vug — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vagueness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and us. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 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 vagueness and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
vagueness 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for vagueness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
vagueness is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vagueness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vagueness, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vagueness 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 vagueness produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.