Hidden inside valines sit alevins and valines, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 190 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alevins and valines tie for the highest Scrabble score from valines at 10 points. The top 10 of 190 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in valines: one comes from rearranging its letters, and valines 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 alevins and valines, 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 valines turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens and navies. For points, the strongest plays are alevin, alvine, anvils, levins, livens, naives, navels, navies, savine, silvae, silvan, snivel, valine, valise, veinal, venial, vinals, 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 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, alive, lanes, leans, lines, and lives. For points, the strongest plays are alive, anvil, avens, evils, laves, levas, levin, levis, liven, lives, naevi, naive, navel, naves, nival, salve, savin, selva, silva, slave, vails, vales, valse, vanes, veals, veils, veins, venal, vials, vinal, vinas, vines, and vleis — 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 valines produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evil, lane, lean, lies, line, live, and nail. For points, the strongest plays are aves, evil, lave, lavs, leva, levs, live, nave, navs, nevi, save, vail, vain, vale, vane, vans, vase, veal, veil, vein, vela, vena, vial, vies, vile, vina, vine, vins, visa, vise, 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 valines turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, sea, sin, and van. For points, the strongest plays are ave, lav, lev, nav, sev, van, vas, via, vie, vin, and vis — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, an, as, el, en, es, in, is, la, li, na, ne, and si — 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 valines 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.
valines 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 3-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 valines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
valines is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing valines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alevins and valines, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from valines 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 valines produce 190 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.