Hidden inside vileness sit evilness, liveness, veinless and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
evilness, liveness, veinless and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from vileness at 11 points. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in vileness: three come from rearranging its letters, and vileness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are evilness, liveness, veinless, and vileness, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in vileness produces 5 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 slieves and snivels, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vileness turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with selves. For points, the strongest plays are envies, levies, levins, livens, nieves, selves, sevens, sieves, slieve, snivel, and vessel — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vileness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves, lines, lives, sense, seven, and veins. For points, the strongest plays are elven, elves, evens, evils, levin, levis, lieve, liven, lives, neves, nieve, seven, sieve, veils, veins, vines, vises, and vleis — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in vileness produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, even, eves, evil, less, lies, and line. For points, the strongest plays are even, eves, evil, levs, live, neve, nevi, sevs, vees, veil, vein, vies, vile, vine, vins, vise, and vlei — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vileness turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, lie, see, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are eve, lev, sev, vee, vie, vin, and vis — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vileness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest plays are el, en, es, in, is, li, ne, and si — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in vileness and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
vileness 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 3-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 vileness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
vileness is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vileness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are evilness, liveness, veinless, and vileness, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from vileness 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 vileness produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.