vexatious 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, 190 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vexatious is the highest-scoring word from vexatious, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 190 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in vexatious — and it is vexatious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vexatious produces exactly one seven-letter word: outvies. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vexatious turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with taxies. For points, the strongest play is exuvia — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vexatious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, exist, exits, suite, taxes, taxis, and tuxes. For points, the strongest play is vaxes — 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 vexatious produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, east, eats, exit, save, seat, and site. 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 vexatious turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat, its, out, sat, sea, and set. 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vexatious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, ex, is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, ox, xi, and xu — 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 vexatious 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.
vexatious 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 one sense for vexatious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
vexatious is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vexatious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vexatious, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vexatious 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 vexatious produce 190 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.