varsities needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 277 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
varsities is the highest-scoring word from varsities, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 277 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in varsities — and it is varsities itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in varsities. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are revisits and visiters, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in varsities produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starves. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including starves, raviest and revisit.
Unscrambling varsities turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raises, resist and sister. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including starve, staves and visits.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in varsities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise, rates and rests. For points, 26 words tie at 8 points, including saves, vases and vests.
Rearranging the letters in varsities produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and ears. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including save, vase and vest.
Unscrambling varsities turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including vet, ave and rev.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in varsities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in varsities plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in varsities 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.
varsities 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 1-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 varsities. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
varsities is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing varsities unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is varsities, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from varsities 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 varsities produce 277 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.