vexations needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 333 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vexations is the highest-scoring word from vexations, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 333 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in vexations — and it is vexations itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vexations produces exactly one eight-letter word: vexation. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in vexations produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with naivest. For points, the strongest plays are antisex, sextain, and toxines — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vexations turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invest, native, navies, and taxies. For points, the strongest play is vixens — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vexations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exist, exits, naive, noise, notes, ovens, and saint. For points, the strongest plays are vaxes and vixen — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in vexations produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east, eats, exit, into, neat, and nest. For points, the strongest play is vext — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vexations turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, its, net, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are vax, vex, and vox — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vexations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, ex, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 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 vexations 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.
vexations 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 four senses for vexations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
vexations is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vexations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vexations, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vexations 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 vexations produce 333 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.