volunteers needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 566 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
volunteers is the highest-scoring word from volunteers, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 566 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in volunteers — and it is volunteers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling volunteers turns up 3 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with volunteer. For points, the strongest plays are resolvent, trueloves, and volunteer — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in volunteers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are evolutes, nervules, outserve and 7 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in volunteers produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nervous and resolve. For points, 24 words tie at 10 points, including nervous, resolve and elevons.
Unscrambling volunteers turns up 106 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, events and lovers. For points, 44 words tie at 9 points, including events, lovers and nerves.
There are 160 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in volunteers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves, enter and event. For points, 46 words tie at 8 points, including elves, event and lover.
Rearranging the letters in volunteers produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, lets and lose. For points, 25 words tie at 7 points, including love, oven and over.
Unscrambling volunteers turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, let and lot. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including eve, vet and lev.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in volunteers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on and or. For points, 20 words tie at 2 points, including no, on and or.
volunteers 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 seven senses for volunteers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
volunteers is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing volunteers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is volunteers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from volunteers 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 volunteers produce 566 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 106 six-letter words, 160 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.