Hidden inside valentine sit levantine and valentine, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 209 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
levantine and valentine tie for the highest Scrabble score from valentine at 12 points. The top 10 of 209 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in valentine: one comes from rearranging its letters, and valentine itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with valentine. For points, the strongest plays are levantine and valentine — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling valentine produces exactly one eight-letter word: venetian. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in valentine produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elative, enliven, naivete, veinlet, and ventail, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling valentine turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invent and native. For points, the strongest plays are alevin, alvine, invent, leaven, levant, native, valine, veinal, velate, venial, venine, and vineal — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valentine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alive, eaten, event, leave, and naive. For points, the strongest plays are alive, anvil, elven, event, evite, leave, levin, lieve, liven, naevi, naive, navel, nieve, nival, valet, veena, venae, venal, venin, vinal, vitae, and vital — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in valentine produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, evil, lane, late, lean, lent, and line. For points, the strongest plays are eave, even, evil, lave, leva, live, nave, neve, nevi, vail, vain, vale, vane, veal, veil, vein, vela, vena, vent, vial, vile, vina, vine, vita, and vlei — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling valentine turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, eve, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are ave, eve, lav, lev, nav, tav, van, vat, vee, vet, via, vie, and vin — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valentine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, an, at, el, en, et, in, it, la, li, na, ne, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in valentine plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in valentine 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.
valentine 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 valentine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
valentine is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing valentine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are levantine and valentine, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from valentine 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 valentine produce 209 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.