Hidden inside verily sit livery, livyer, and verily, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
livery, livyer, and verily tie for the highest Scrabble score from verily at 12 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in verily: two come from rearranging its letters, and verily itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are livery, livyer, and verily, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liver and viler. For points, the strongest plays are ervil, liver, livre, riley, and viler — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in verily produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evil, live, rely, very, and vile. For points, the strongest plays are levy and very — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling verily turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verily. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, worth 5 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 verily and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
verily 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 1-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 verily. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
verily is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing verily unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are livery, livyer, and verily, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from verily 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 verily produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.