vocalises needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 318 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vocalises is the highest-scoring word from vocalises, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 318 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in vocalises — and it is vocalises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vocalises. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is vocalise, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in vocalises 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 alcoves, coevals, ovisacs and 3 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vocalises turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, calves and closes. For points, 12 words tie at 11 points, including calves, voices and alcove.
There are 95 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vocalises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alive and cases. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including caves, voice and calve.
Rearranging the letters in vocalises produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, case and cave. For points, the strongest plays are cave, cove, vacs, and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vocalises turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ice and lie. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vocalises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, and so. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including as, is and so.
Swap a single tile in vocalises 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.
vocalises 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 five senses for vocalises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
vocalises is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vocalises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vocalises, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vocalises 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 vocalises produce 318 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 95 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.