Hidden inside valiance sit valencia and valiance, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
valencia and valiance tie for the highest Scrabble score from valiance at 13 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in valiance: one comes from rearranging its letters, and valiance 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 valencia and valiance, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling valiance produces exactly one seven-letter word: valance. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling valiance turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alevin, alvine, valine, veinal, venial, 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 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valiance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alive, clean, and naive. For points, the strongest plays are calve, cavie, cavil, clave, clavi, and vinca — 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 valiance produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave, evil, lane, lava, lean, lice, and line. For points, the strongest plays are cava, cave, and vice — 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 valiance turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, ice, lie, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valiance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, al, an, el, en, in, la, li, 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 valiance 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.
valiance 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 one sense for valiance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
valiance is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing valiance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are valencia and valiance, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from valiance 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 valiance produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.