Hidden inside valise sit silvae and valise, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
silvae and valise tie for the highest Scrabble score from valise at 9 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in valise: one comes from rearranging its letters, and valise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are silvae and valise, 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alive, lives, slave, and veals. For points, the strongest plays are alive, evils, laves, levas, levis, lives, salve, selva, silva, slave, vails, vales, valse, veals, veils, vials, 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 valise produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evil, lies, live, sail, sale, save, and seal. For points, the strongest plays are aves, evil, lave, lavs, leva, levs, live, save, vail, vale, vase, veal, veil, vela, vial, vies, vile, 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 valise turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ave, lav, lev, sev, vas, via, vie, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, as, el, es, is, la, li, 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 valise and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
valise 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 2-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 valise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
valise is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing valise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are silvae and valise, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from valise 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 valise produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.