Hidden inside veridical sit larvicide and veridical, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 280 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
larvicide and veridical tie for the highest Scrabble score from veridical at 15 points. The top 10 of 280 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in veridical: one comes from rearranging its letters, and veridical 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 larvicide and veridical, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in veridical produces 11 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 caviled and veridic, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling veridical turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advice and carved. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including advice, carved and calved.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in veridical. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, alive and cared. For points, the strongest plays are caved and viced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in veridical produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, card and care. For points, the strongest plays are cave and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling veridical turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air and are. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in veridical. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and id. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in veridical plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in veridical 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.
veridical 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for veridical. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
veridical is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing veridical unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are larvicide and veridical, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from veridical 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 veridical produce 280 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.