varmint needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
varmint is the highest-scoring word from varmint, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in varmint — and it is varmint itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling varmint produces exactly one six-letter word: martin. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in varmint. If a familiar word is all you need, start with train. For points, the strongest play is mavin — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in varmint produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with main, mint, rain, and trim. For points, the strongest plays are vain, vair, vina, and vita — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling varmint turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and ant. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in varmint. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in varmint plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in varmint and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
varmint 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 two senses for varmint. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
varmint is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing varmint unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is varmint, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from varmint 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 varmint produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 9 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.