verdurous needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
verdurous is the highest-scoring word from verdurous, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in verdurous — and it is verdurous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in verdurous produces 3 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 devours and drovers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling verdurous turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with orders and sourer. For points, the strongest plays are devour, drover, and droves — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verdurous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drove, order and ruder. For points, the strongest plays are doves, drove, and roved — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in verdurous produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dove and ours. For points, the strongest plays are devs and dove — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling verdurous turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, our and red. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verdurous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in verdurous 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.
verdurous 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.
verdurous is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing verdurous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is verdurous, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from verdurous 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 verdurous produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.