vedettes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vedettes is the highest-scoring word from vedettes, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in vedettes — and it is vedettes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in vedettes produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are steeved and vedette, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vedettes turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tested. For points, the strongest plays are devest, vested, and vetted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vedettes. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deets and steed, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in vedettes produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eves, seed and test. For points, the strongest play is devs — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vedettes turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, see, set, and vet. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vedettes. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in vedettes 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.
vedettes 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.
vedettes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vedettes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vedettes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vedettes 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 vedettes produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.