Hidden inside valence sit enclave and valence, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enclave and valence tie for the highest Scrabble score from valence at 12 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in valence: one comes from rearranging its letters, and valence itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enclave and valence, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling valence turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cleave, worth 11 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 valence. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clean and leave. For points, the strongest plays are calve and clave — 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 valence produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave, even, lane, lean, and veal. For points, the strongest play is cave — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling valence turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, eve, and van. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valence. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, an, el, en, la, na, and ne — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in valence plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in valence 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.
valence 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 valence. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
valence is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing valence unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enclave and valence, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from valence 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 valence produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.