Unscramble VERTUOUS to get 165 words. VERTUOUS itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 9: 8 of them, VOTERS, STOVER and STROVE included. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from VERTUOUS split into 1 with 8 letters, 17 with 6, 37 with 5, 57 with 4, 38 with 3 and 15 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Of the 37 5-letter words in VERTUOUS, 14 score 8 points, the group's best. STORE, TOURS and VOTES are the ones most people know.
Among 57 4-letter words you get when you unscramble VERTUOUS, the top score is 7, reached by 15. OVER, USER and SURE are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of VERTUOUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with VE · ending in US · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by STOVER, STROVE, TROVES, TURVES, UVEOUS, VERTUS and VOTERS (9 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
VERTUOUS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| VERTUOUS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 165) | 133 | 165 | 123 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
32 of the 165 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: VERTUOUS, OUVERT, VROUS, EVOS, VERS, VORS, VROT, VROU, EVO, SOV, TOUSER, TROUSE and 20 more. 10 of the 165 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ERUVS, ERUV, SEV, TRES, TROU, UTES, EST, TES, UTE and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of VERTUOUS spell the words below.