Unscramble VELOUTES and you have 169 words, VELOUTES itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 11 points: EVOLUTES. 4 shorter words score 10, among them EVOLUES, EVOLUTE and VELOUTE. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from VELOUTES by length: 2 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 13 with 6, 36 with 5, 60 with 4, 40 with 3 and 14 with 2.
15 of 36 5-letter words you get when you unscramble VELOUTES tie at 8 points; none scores more. STEEL, VOTES and SOLVE will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words in VELOUTES, 20 score 7 points, the group's best. LOVE, LOST and VOTE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of VELOUTES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with VE · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
The meaning of VELOUTES, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. VELOUTES is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| VELOUTES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 169) | 131 | 169 | 123 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: EVOLUES, EVOLUE, VOLETS, EVETS, LEVES, OVELS, SLOVE, VELES, VOLET, EVET, EVOE, EVOS and 26 more, 38 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: EVULSE, LEVS, SEV, SUETE, EST, TES, UTE and TE, 8 in all.
This word takes every letter of VELOUTES plus a single extra one.