vouch needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 6 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vouch is the highest-scoring word from vouch, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 6 of 6 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in vouch — and it is vouch itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vouch produces exactly one four-letter word: ouch. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling vouch produces exactly one three-letter word: och. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vouch. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ho, oh, and uh, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in vouch plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in vouch and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
vouch 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 2-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 vouch. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
vouch is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vouch unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vouch, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from vouch 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 vouch produce 6 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 1 four-letter word, 1 three-letter word and 3 two-letter words.