VALID unscrambled

V4A1L1I1D2

These 5 tiles spell 22 words, the longest running 5 letters, including 1 anagram that uses every letter.

Full anagrams of VALID

One word uses every one of your 5 tiles — the complete rearrangement most puzzles are asking for.

Longest first, alphabetical within each length. The small number is the word's tile score. Tap any word to unscramble it in turn.

Unlike the list above, these depend on the order you typed: each one is sitting in the spelling already, left to right, with nothing rearranged.

Add a single blank and the same rack reaches 357 more words, up to 6 letters. Here are the longest of them.

2 vowels and 3 consonants — a balanced rack, which is where the longest words usually come from.

Face value of the full rack: 9 points.

The V: The awkward one — there is no valid two-letter word containing V, so it always needs at least two other tiles.

Drop a tile and solve the rest. Each link runs the same search on the remaining letters.