Hidden inside varletries sit retrievals and varletries, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 736 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retrievals and varletries tie for the highest Scrabble score from varletries at 13 points. The top 10 of 736 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in varletries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and varletries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retrievals and varletries, 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 varletries turns up 7 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relatives. For points, the strongest plays are arrestive, levirates, relatives, retrieval, travelers, and versatile — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in varletries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earliest, relative, and trailers. For points, the strongest plays are averters, elatives, leaviest, levirate, ravelers, relative, resilver, restrive, reversal, revilers, riveters, silverer, slaverer, sliverer, traveler, traverse, and vealiest — 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 varletries produces 82 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrives, earlier, evilest, relates, retires, reveals, and saltier. For points, the strongest plays are arrives, averter, elative, estival, evilest, laveers, leavers, leavier, leviers, lievest, raveler, raviest, reavers, reivers, relives, restive, reveals, reverts, reviler, reviles, revisal, reviser, rievers, riveter, servile, several, sievert, starver, striver, svelter, travels, variers, varlets, vastier, vealers, vealier, veilers, velites, veriest, veritas, verites, and vestral — each 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 varletries turns up 168 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, arrest, arrive, easier, easter, and eviler. For points, the strongest plays are aivers, arrive, averse, averts, elvers, ervils, everts, eviler, evites, laveer, lavers, leaver, leaves, levers, levier, levies, liever, livers, livest, livres, ravels, ravers, ravier, reaver, reaves, reiver, reives, relive, reveal, revels, revers, revert, revest, revets, revile, revise, riever, rivals, rivers, rivets, salver, serval, server, silvae, silver, slaver, sleave, slieve, sliver, starve, stevia, stiver, strive, svelte, travel, traves, valets, valise, varier, varies, varlet, vaster, vealer, veiler, velars, velate, verier, verist, verite, versal, verser, verset, verste, vestal, vilest, and vitals — 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 189 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in varletries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alive, alter, elves, erase, and laser. For points, the strongest plays are aiver, alive, avers, avert, eaves, elver, elves, ervil, evert, evils, evite, laver, laves, leave, levas, lever, levis, lieve, liver, lives, livre, ravel, raver, raves, reave, reive, revel, revet, rival, river, rives, rivet, salve, saver, selva, serve, sever, sieve, silva, siver, slave, stave, trave, vails, vairs, vales, valet, valse, veals, veers, veils, velar, verse, verst, verts, vesta, vials, viers, viler, viral, vires, virls, vista, vitae, vital, 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 varletries produces 161 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, last, late, lets, liar, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are aver, aves, lave, lavs, leva, levs, live, rave, revs, rive, save, tavs, vail, vair, vale, vars, vase, vast, vats, veal, veer, vees, veil, vela, vera, vert, vest, vets, vial, vier, vies, vile, virl, visa, vise, vita, vlei, eave, ever, eves, and evil — 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 varletries turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ave, eve, lav, lev, rev, sev, tav, var, vas, vat, vee, vet, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in varletries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, is, it, la, li, re, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
varletries 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.
varletries is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing varletries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retrievals and varletries, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from varletries 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 varletries produce 736 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 7 nine-letter words, 29 eight-letter words, 82 seven-letter words, 168 six-letter words, 189 five-letter words, 161 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.