Hidden inside victualers sit revictuals and victualers, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 965 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
revictuals and victualers tie for the highest Scrabble score from victualers at 15 points. The top 10 of 965 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in victualers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and victualers 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 revictuals and victualers, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling victualers turns up 9 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cultivars, curatives, lucrative and 4 more, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in victualers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with articles, curliest, and recitals. For points, 11 words tie at 13 points, including acervuli, cavilers and claviers.
Rearranging the letters in victualers produces 82 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article, recital and rituals. For points, 16 words tie at 12 points, including actives, carvels and caviler.
Unscrambling victualers turns up 198 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with active, alerts and alters. For points, 21 words tie at 11 points, including active, calves and carves.
There are 286 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in victualers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert and alive. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including carve, caves and varec.
Rearranging the letters in victualers produces 235 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs and arts. For points, the strongest plays are vacs, vice, and cave — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling victualers turns up 106 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and are. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in victualers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and is. For points, 21 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in victualers plus one additional letter.
victualers 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for victualers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
victualers is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing victualers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are revictuals and victualers, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from victualers 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 victualers produce 965 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 9 nine-letter words, 26 eight-letter words, 82 seven-letter words, 198 six-letter words, 286 five-letter words, 235 four-letter words, 106 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.