vigilantes needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 694 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vigilantes is the highest-scoring word from vigilantes, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 694 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in vigilantes — and it is vigilantes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vigilantes turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are genitival, vestigial, and vigilante, 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 20 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vigilantes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genitals and stealing. For points, the strongest plays are leavings, ligative, sleaving, valeting, veilings, vestigia, vigilant, and vintages — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in vigilantes produces 75 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invites, lasting, leaving, listing, livings, naivest, and sailing. For points, the strongest plays are eviting, glaives, leaving, livings, salving, sieving, slaving, staving, vailing, vealing, veiling, vesting, vialing, vintage, visaing, and viseing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vigilantes turns up 120 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, aliens, angels, angles, easing, eating, and giants. For points, the strongest plays are ganevs, gavels, givens, glaive, laving, living, saving, vagile, vegans, vigias, vigils, visage, and vising — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 169 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vigilantes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aisle, alien, alive, angel, angle, and gains. For points, the strongest plays are ganev, gavel, given, gives, vangs, vegan, vegas, vigas, vigia, and vigil — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in vigilantes produces 188 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, lane, last, late, lean, and legs. For points, the strongest plays are vagi, vang, vega, viga, vigs, gave, and give — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vigilantes turns up 94 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, ate, eat, gal, gas, and get. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vigilantes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in vigilantes plus one additional letter.
vigilantes 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 one sense for vigilantes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
vigilantes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vigilantes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vigilantes, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vigilantes 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 vigilantes produce 694 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 20 eight-letter words, 75 seven-letter words, 120 six-letter words, 169 five-letter words, 188 four-letter words, 94 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.