Hidden inside values sit avulse and values, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
avulse and values tie for the highest Scrabble score from values at 9 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in values: one comes from rearranging its letters, and values itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with values. For points, the strongest plays are avulse and values — 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in values. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slave, value, and veals. For points, the strongest plays are laves, levas, salve, selva, slave, suave, ulvas, uveal, uveas, vales, valse, value, and veals — 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 values produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sale, save, seal, vase, and veal. For points, the strongest plays are aves, lave, lavs, leva, levs, luvs, save, ulva, uvea, vale, vase, vaus, veal, and vela — 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 values turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sea, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are ave, lav, lev, luv, sev, vas, and vau — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in values. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, as, el, es, la, and us — 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 values 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.
values 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 values. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
values is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing values unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are avulse and values, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from values 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 values produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.