vigilantly needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vigilantly is the highest-scoring word from vigilantly, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in vigilantly — and it is vigilantly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vigilantly. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are livingly and vagility, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in vigilantly produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with villain. For points, the strongest play is vitally — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vigilantly turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laying and living. For points, the strongest plays are vainly and vanity — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vigilantly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant, lying, and tying. For points, the strongest play is vying — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in vigilantly produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, nail and navy. For points, the strongest plays are navy, tivy, and viny — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vigilantly turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ant and any. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vigilantly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in vigilantly plus one additional letter.
vigilantly 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 vigilantly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
vigilantly is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vigilantly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vigilantly, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vigilantly 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 vigilantly produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.