varments needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 281 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
varments is the highest-scoring word from varments, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 281 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in varments — and it is varments itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in varments produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with servant and taverns. For points, the strongest play is varment — 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 varments turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master, starve, and tavern. For points, the strongest play is mavens — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in varments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, mates, means, meant, meats, names, and rates. For points, the strongest play is maven — 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 varments produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants, arms, arts, earn, ears, and east. For points, the strongest plays are aver, aves, nave, navs, rave, revs, save, tavs, vane, vans, vars, vase, vast, vats, vena, vent, vera, vert, vest, and vets — 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 varments turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, arm, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ave, nav, rev, sev, tav, van, var, vas, vat, and vet — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in varments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 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 varments 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.
varments 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 varments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
varments is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing varments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is varments, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from varments 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 varments produce 281 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.