voluntaries needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1762 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
voluntaries is the highest-scoring word from voluntaries, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1762 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in voluntaries — and it is voluntaries itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling voluntaries turns up 17 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relations. For points, the strongest plays are avirulent, intervals, involutes, outlivers, outrivals, revulsion, universal, versional, and violaters — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 90 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in voluntaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with investor, relation, routines, urinates, and violates. For points, the strongest plays are aversion, avulsion, evulsion, interval, investor, involute, levators, novelist, outliver, outlives, outraves, outrival, overlain, oversalt, ovulates, ravelins, ravenous, rivulets, rivulose, souvenir, travoise, unravels, unrivets, valorise, varioles, vaulters, vaultier, vaunters, ventails, ventrals, venturis, veronals, vertisol, vestural, viatores, violater, violates, virtuosa, virtuose, virulent, vitreous, volutins, and votaries — 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 voluntaries produces 207 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolate, lousier, naivest, nastier, natures, nervous, and rituals. For points, the strongest plays are alevins, envious, enviros, estival, evasion, inverts, levants, levator, louvers, louvres, loviest, naivest, natives, nervous, niveous, novates, outlive, outrave, outvies, ovaries, overlit, ovulate, ravelin, raviest, ravines, renvois, revisal, revolts, revuist, rivulet, saviour, servant, silvern, solvate, solvent, striven, stuiver, surveil, taverns, travels, travois, unlives, unravel, unrivet, unveils, vainest, valines, valours, valuers, variole, various, varlets, vastier, vaulter, vaunter, vauntie, veinous, velours, ventail, ventral, venturi, venular, veritas, veronal, versant, version, vestral, viators, violate, violent, violets, virtual, virtues, volante, volutes, and volutin — 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 voluntaries turns up 372 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starve, stolen, tavern, trails, trains, travel, and trials. For points, the strongest plays are starve, stevia, stiver, stover, strive, strove, suaver, tavern, travel, traves, troves, aivers, alevin, alvine, anvils, averts, avions, avoset, avulse, eluvia, enviro, envois, ervils, invars, invert, invest, lavers, levant, levins, livens, livers, livest, livres, loaves, louver, louvre, lovats, lovers, lovier, naevus, naiver, naives, native, navels, navies, novate, novels, olives, outvie, ovines, ovular, ovules, ravels, ravens, ravine, ravins, renvoi, revolt, rivals, rivets, salver, salvor, savine, savior, savour, serval, silvae, silvan, silver, slaver, sliver, sloven, slurve, snivel, solver, soviet, sovran, turves, unlive, unrove, unveil, vainer, valets, valine, valise, valors, valour, valuer, values, varies, varlet, vaster, vaults, vaunts, veinal, velars, velour, venial, venous, verist, vernal, versal, versin, vertus, vestal, viator, vilest, vinals, vineal, vinous, violas, violet, vireos, virtue, virtus, visual, vitals, voiles, volant, voltes, volute, and voters — 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 496 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in voluntaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alien, alive, alone, alter, and aunts. For points, the strongest plays are aiver, alive, anvil, arvos, avens, avers, avert, avion, aviso, invar, laevo, laver, laves, levas, levin, levis, liven, liver, lives, livre, lovat, lover, loves, naevi, naive, navel, naves, nevus, nival, novae, novas, novel, oaves, olive, ovals, ovate, ovens, overs, overt, ovine, ovule, ravel, raven, raves, ravin, rival, riven, rives, rivet, roven, roves, salve, salvo, saver, savin, savor, selva, servo, silva, siver, slave, soave, solve, stave, stove, suave, trave, trove, ulvas, uveal, uveas, vails, vairs, vales, valet, valor, valse, value, vanes, varus, vatus, vault, vaunt, veals, veils, veins, velar, venal, vents, venus, verso, verst, verts, vertu, vesta, vials, viers, viler, vinal, vinas, vines, vinos, viola, viols, viral, vireo, vires, virls, virtu, virus, visor, vista, vitae, vital, vleis, voila, voile, volar, voles, volta, volte, volti, volts, voter, votes, vulns, envoi, eruvs, ervil, and evils — 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 voluntaries produces 391 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also, ants, anus, arts, aunt, and auto. For points, the strongest plays are arvo, aver, aves, avos, lave, lavs, leva, levo, levs, live, love, luvs, nave, navs, nevi, nova, oval, oven, over, rave, revs, rive, rove, save, tavs, ulva, uvea, vail, vain, vair, vale, vane, vans, vars, vase, vast, vats, vatu, vaus, veal, veil, vein, vela, vena, vent, vera, vert, vest, veto, vets, vial, vier, vies, vile, vina, vine, vino, vins, viol, virl, visa, vise, vita, vlei, voes, vole, volt, vote, vuln, eruv, and evil — 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 voluntaries turns up 151 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ave, avo, lav, lev, luv, nav, ova, rev, sev, tav, van, var, vas, vat, vau, vet, via, vie, vin, vis, and voe — 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 37 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in voluntaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, an, ar, as, at, el, en, er, es, et, in, is, it, la, li, lo, na, ne, no, nu, oe, oi, on, or, os, re, si, so, ta, te, ti, to, un, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in voluntaries plus one additional letter.
voluntaries 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 four senses for voluntaries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
voluntaries is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing voluntaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is voluntaries, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from voluntaries 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 voluntaries produce 1762 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 17 nine-letter words, 90 eight-letter words, 207 seven-letter words, 372 six-letter words, 496 five-letter words, 391 four-letter words, 151 three-letter words and 37 two-letter words.