variances 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, 353 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
variances is the highest-scoring word from variances, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 353 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in variances — and it is variances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in variances. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avarices, canvaser, caviares, and variance, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in variances produces 19 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 airvacs, avarice, caverns, caviare, caviars, cravens, varices, and viscera, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling variances turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carves, naiver, and navies. For points, the strongest plays are airvac, canvas, carven, carves, cavern, cavers, caviar, cavies, craven, craves, scrive, varecs, vesica, vicars, and vincas — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 102 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in variances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, cares, carve, caves, cries, earns, and naive. For points, the strongest plays are carve, cavas, caver, caves, cavie, crave, varec, vicar, vices, and vinca — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in variances produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, area, cans, care, cars, case, and cave. For points, the strongest plays are cava, cave, vacs, and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling variances turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, can, car, ear, era, and ice. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in variances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, an, ar, as, en, er, es, in, is, na, ne, re, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in variances plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in variances 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.
variances 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 seven senses for variances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
variances is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing variances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is variances, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from variances 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 variances produce 353 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 102 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.