Hidden inside valences sit enclaves and valences, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enclaves and valences tie for the highest Scrabble score from valences at 13 points. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in valences: one comes from rearranging its letters, and valences itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enclaves and valences, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in valences produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleanse. For points, the strongest plays are cleaves, 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 valences turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calves, cleans, and leaves. For points, the strongest plays are calves, claves, and cleave — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valences. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caves, cease, clean, elves, lanes, leans, and lease. For points, the strongest plays are calve, caves, 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 valences produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, case, cave, ease, else, even, and eves. For points, the strongest plays are cave and vacs — each 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 valences turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, eve, sea, see, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valences. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, an, as, el, en, es, 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.
Swap a single tile in valences 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.
valences 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 valences. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
valences is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing valences unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enclaves and valences, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from valences 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 valences produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.