Hidden inside vesicles sit clevises, vesicles, and viceless, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clevises, vesicles, and viceless tie for the highest Scrabble score from vesicles at 13 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in vesicles: two come from rearranging its letters, and vesicles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clevises, vesicles, and viceless, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in vesicles 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 word is vesicle, 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 vesicles turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with selves and slices. For points, the strongest play is clevis — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vesicles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves, lives, and slice. For points, the strongest play is vices — 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 vesicles produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, eves, evil, ices, less, lice, and lies. 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 vesicles turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, ice, lie, and see. For points, the strongest plays are eve, lev, sev, vee, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vesicles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, is, li, and si — 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 vesicles 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.
vesicles 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 vesicles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
vesicles is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vesicles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clevises, vesicles, and viceless, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from vesicles 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 vesicles produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.