Hidden inside variously sit savourily and variously, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 209 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
savourily and variously tie for the highest Scrabble score from variously at 15 points. The top 10 of 209 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in variously: one comes from rearranging its letters, and variously itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are savourily and variously, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling variously produces exactly one eight-letter word: savorily. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in variously produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with various. For points, the strongest plays are olivary, ovulary, and savoury — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling variously turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sailor. For points, the strongest play is savory — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in variously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liars, lousy, solar, virus, and yours. For points, the strongest plays are ivory, ovary, savoy, and sylva — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in variously produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also, lays, liar, oils, oral, and ours. For points, the strongest play is vary — 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 variously turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, lay, oil, our, say, sir, and soy. For points, the strongest play is ivy — 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 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in variously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, ay, is, or, oy, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 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 variously and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
variously 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 variously. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
variously is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing variously unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are savourily and variously, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from variously 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 variously produce 209 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.