vigilance needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 213 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vigilance is the highest-scoring word from vigilance, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 213 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in vigilance — and it is vigilance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vigilance. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caviling, cleaving, and vicinage, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in vigilance produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceiling and leaving. For points, the strongest play is calving — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vigilance turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with living. For points, the strongest plays are caving and vicing — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vigilance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alive, angel, angle, civil, clean, and genii. For points, the strongest plays are calve, cavie, cavil, civie, civil, clave, clavi, vinca, and vinic — 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 vigilance produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cage, cave, evil, gain, gave, give, and lane. For points, the strongest plays are 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 vigilance turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, can, gal, ice, leg, lie, and nag. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vigilance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in vigilance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in vigilance 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.
vigilance 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 5-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 vigilance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
vigilance is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vigilance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vigilance, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vigilance 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 vigilance produce 213 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.