vigorishes 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, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vigorishes is the highest-scoring word from vigorishes, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in vigorishes — and it is vigorishes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vigorishes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is vigorish, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in vigorishes produces 14 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 shivers, shovers, and shrives, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vigorishes turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horses, orgies, and shoves. For points, 7 words tie at 12 points, including shoves, hovers and shiver.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vigorishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gives, gross and hires. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including shove, hives and hover.
Rearranging the letters in vigorishes produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, give and goes. For points, the strongest plays are hive, hove, and shiv — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vigorishes turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, her and his. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including hog, ghi and veg.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vigorishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, go and he. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and hi.
vigorishes 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 1-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 vigorishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
vigorishes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vigorishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vigorishes, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vigorishes 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 vigorishes produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.