vertices needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vertices is the highest-scoring word from vertices, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in vertices — and it is vertices itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in vertices produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with service. For points, the strongest plays are scrieve and service — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vertices turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with secret. For points, the strongest plays are civets, evicts, and scrive — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vertices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, rices, serve, steer, tires, trees, and tries. For points, the strongest plays are civet, evict, and vices — 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 vertices produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, eves, ices, rest, rice, rise, and site. For points, the strongest play is vice — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vertices turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, ice, its, see, set, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, sev, vee, vet, vie, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vertices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, is, it, re, si, te, and ti — 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 vertices 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.
vertices 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.
vertices is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vertices unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vertices, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vertices 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 vertices produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.