Hidden inside varicose sit covaries and varicose, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 247 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
covaries and varicose tie for the highest Scrabble score from varicose at 13 points. The top 10 of 247 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in varicose: one comes from rearranging its letters, and varicose 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 covaries and varicose, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in varicose produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are varices, viscera, and voicers, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling varicose turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carves, covers, and voices. For points, the strongest plays are carves, cavers, cavies, corves, covers, craves, ovisac, scrive, varecs, vesica, vicars, voicer, and voices — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in varicose. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carve, caves, cores, cover, cries, and races. For points, the strongest plays are carve, caver, caves, cavie, cover, coves, crave, varec, vicar, vices, voces, and voice — 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 varicose produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, care, cars, case, cave, core, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are cave, cove, vacs, 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 varicose turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, car, ear, era, ice, and sea. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in varicose. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, as, er, es, is, oe, oi, or, os, re, si, and so — 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 varicose 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.
varicose 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 varicose. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
varicose is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing varicose unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are covaries and varicose, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from varicose 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 varicose produce 247 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.