Hidden inside vicariate sit aviatrice and vicariate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aviatrice and vicariate tie for the highest Scrabble score from vicariate at 14 points. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in vicariate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and vicariate 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 aviatrice and vicariate, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling vicariate produces exactly one eight-letter word: vicarate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in vicariate produces 5 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 avarice, aviatic, caviare, and viatica, each 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 vicariate turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with active. For points, the strongest plays are active, airvac, atavic, caveat, caviar, cravat, vacate, viatic, and vitric — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vicariate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carve, cater, and react. For points, the strongest plays are carve, caver, cavie, civet, civie, crave, evict, varec, vatic, and vicar — each 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 vicariate produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, care, cart, cave, race, rate, and rice. For points, the strongest plays are cava, cave, and vice — each 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 vicariate turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, are, art, ate, car, and cat. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vicariate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, ar, at, er, et, it, re, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in vicariate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in vicariate 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.
vicariate 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 vicariate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
vicariate is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vicariate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aviatrice and vicariate, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from vicariate 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 vicariate produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.