Hidden inside vicariates sit aviatrices and vicariates, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 427 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aviatrices and vicariates tie for the highest Scrabble score from vicariates at 15 points. The top 10 of 427 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in vicariates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and vicariates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aviatrices and vicariates, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vicariates turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aviatrice, vicarates, 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.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vicariates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avarices, caviares, cavities, veristic, and vicarate, 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 vicariates produces 32 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 actives, airvacs, avarice, aviatic, caveats, caviare, caviars, cravats, vacates, varices, viatica, viscera, and vitrics, 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 vicariates turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with active, carves, caters, cities, racist, reacts, and starve. For points, the strongest plays are active, airvac, atavic, carves, caveat, cavers, caviar, cavies, civets, civies, cravat, craves, evicts, scrive, vacate, varecs, vesica, viatic, vicars, 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 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vicariates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, cares, carts, carve, cater, caves, and cries. For points, the strongest plays are carve, cavas, caver, caves, cavie, civet, civie, crave, evict, varec, vatic, vicar, and vices — 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 vicariates produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, area, arts, care, cars, and cart. For points, the strongest plays are cava, cave, vacs, 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 vicariates turns up 66 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vicariates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, ar, as, at, er, es, et, is, it, re, si, 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in vicariates plus one additional letter.
vicariates 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 vicariates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
vicariates is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vicariates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aviatrices and vicariates, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from vicariates 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 vicariates produce 427 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.