106 words come out when you unscramble VALVULES, starting with VALVULES itself: 14 in Scrabble, 19 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from VALVULES split into 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 8 with 6, 20 with 5, 37 with 4, 31 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Just 1 of the 7-letter words made with VALVULES letters: VALVULE, for 13 points.
VAVS tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble VALVULES at 10 points; next come AVEL and AVES on 7. SAVE, SALE and SELL will look familiar.
Trade one tile of VALVULES for another and you can spell these 4 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with VA · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What VALVULES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept VALVULES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALVULES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 106) | 82 | 106 | 79 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 24 of them: VELLUS, AVELS, VELLS, AVEL, UVAE, UVAS, VAES, VELL, LESULA, SAV, UVA, VAE and 12 more. Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: LEVAS, LEVS and SEV.