verdigris needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 139 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
verdigris is the highest-scoring word from verdigris, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 139 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in verdigris — and it is verdigris itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in verdigris produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drivers. For points, the strongest plays are drivers and virgers — each 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 verdigris turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driver, drives, and rivers. For points, the strongest plays are divers, driver, drives, givers, and virger — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verdigris. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dives, drier, dries, drive, gives, rides, and river. For points, the strongest plays are devis, diver, dives, drive, giver, gives, ivied, rived, virid, and vised — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in verdigris produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, digs, dive, give, ride, rids, and rigs. For points, the strongest plays are devi, devs, dive, give, vide, vids, vied, and vigs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling verdigris turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, ids, red, rid, rig, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are dev, veg, vid, and vig — each worth 7 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 verdigris. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 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 verdigris 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.
verdigris 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for verdigris. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
verdigris is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing verdigris unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is verdigris, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from verdigris 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 verdigris produce 139 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.