Hidden inside verapamil sit primaeval and verapamil, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 264 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
primaeval and verapamil tie for the highest Scrabble score from verapamil at 16 points. The top 10 of 264 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in verapamil: one comes from rearranging its letters, and verapamil itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are primaeval and verapamil, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling verapamil produces exactly one eight-letter word: primeval. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in verapamil produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with vampire. For points, the strongest plays are vampier and vampire — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling verapamil turns up 20 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are revamp and vamper, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verapamil. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarm, alive, email, lamer, liver, maple, and prime. For points, the strongest plays are mavie, parve, paver, vaper, and viper — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in verapamil produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, lame, lamp, lava, leap, liar, and live. For points, the strongest play is vamp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling verapamil turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ape, are, arm, ear, and era. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verapamil. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in verapamil plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in verapamil 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.
verapamil 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for verapamil. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
verapamil is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing verapamil unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are primaeval and verapamil, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from verapamil 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 verapamil produce 264 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.