Hidden inside various sit saviour and various, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
saviour and various tie for the highest Scrabble score from various at 10 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in various: one comes from rearranging its letters, and various itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with various. For points, the strongest plays are saviour and various — 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 various turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are savior and savour, 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in various. If a familiar word is all you need, start with virus. For points, the strongest plays are arvos, aviso, savor, vairs, varus, virus, and visor — 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 various produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ours, and sour. For points, the strongest plays are arvo, avos, vair, vars, vaus, and visa — 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 various turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, our, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are avo, ova, var, vas, vau, via, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in various. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ai, ar, as, is, oi, or, os, si, so, and us — 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 various 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.
various 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 four senses for various. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
various is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing various unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are saviour and various, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from various 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 various produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.