Words that start with V
There are 4,452 words that start with V in Unscrambly's open word list; the highest scoring is VENTRILOQUIZING at 37 points. They run from 3 to 15 letters, 9-letter words are the biggest group with 708, and the average one scores 14.9 points.
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V is a four-point tile that rarely doubles and almost never ends a common English word, which quietly limits where it can go. V starts 1.6% of the 269,870 words in the dictionary, the 20th largest share of the 26 letters. The longest run to 15 letters (55 words), VASCULARISATION among them. No two-letter word starts with V, so the shortest here have 3 letters.
Words that start with V in numbers
- Words
- 4,452
- Highest scoring
- VENTRILOQUIZING 37 pts
- Average score
- 14.9 pts
- Longest
- VASCULARISATION 15 letters
- 329
- 4112
- 5234
- 6419
- 7553
- 8690
- 9708
- 10572
- 11430
- 12294
- 13218
- 14138
- 1555
Highest-scoring words that start with v
| Word | Score | Length |
|---|---|---|
| ventriloquizing | 37 | 15 |
| ventriloquized | 36 | 14 |
| ventriloquizes | 35 | 14 |
| ventriloquize | 34 | 13 |
| vizzieing | 31 | 9 |
| vagabondizing | 30 | 13 |
| vanquishments | 30 | 13 |
| vasectomizing | 30 | 13 |
| ventriloquially | 30 | 15 |
| vernacularizing | 30 | 15 |
Words that start with V (4,452)
These 300 of the 4,452 are a spread sample: the 50 highest scoring first, then words taken in turn from every length (3 to 15 letters); within each, words with a dictionary definition come first. The solver above searches all of them for your tiles, and the full list is in the free JSON API.
15-letter words 11
14-letter words 22
13-letter words 25
12-letter words 25
11-letter words 25
10-letter words 25
9-letter words 25
8-letter words 25
7-letter words 26
6-letter words 26
5-letter words 26
4-letter words 26
Frequently asked questions
How many words start with V?
4,452 words in Unscrambly's list start with V. 234 of them have five letters, 553 have seven and none have two.
What is the best V word for Scrabble?
VENTRILOQUIZING scores 37 points before bonus squares. Next come VENTRILOQUIZED (36), VENTRILOQUIZES (35) and VENTRILOQUIZE (34). Across all 4,452, the average is 14.9 points.
What two-letter words start with V?
None in Unscrambly's list. The shortest words that start with V have 3 letters, and there are 29 of them.
How many 5 letter words start with V?
234. Five letters is the Wordle length, and every one of them is on the 5 letter words starting with V list, where VOZHD scores highest at 21 points.