valises needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
valises is the highest-scoring word from valises, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in valises — and it is valises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling valises turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles and slaves. For points, the strongest plays are salves, selvas, silvae, silvas, slaves, valise, and valses — 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alive, lives, sails, sales, saves, and seals. For points, the strongest plays are alive, evils, laves, levas, levis, lives, salve, saves, selva, silva, slave, vails, vales, valse, vases, veals, veils, vials, visas, vises, 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 valises produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evil, less, lies, live, sail, sale, and save. For points, the strongest plays are aves, evil, lave, lavs, leva, levs, live, save, sevs, 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 valises turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, 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 valises. 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 valises 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.
valises 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 valises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
valises is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing valises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is valises, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from valises 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 valises produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.