vaunts needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vaunts is the highest-scoring word from vaunts, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in vaunts — and it is vaunts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vaunts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts and tunas. For points, the strongest plays are vatus and vaunt — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in vaunts produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and aunt. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including vans, navs and tavs.
Unscrambling vaunts turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, nut and sat. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including van, nav and tav.
Swap a single tile in vaunts and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
vaunts 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 vaunts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
vaunts is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vaunts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vaunts, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vaunts 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 vaunts produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.