What VICIOUS Means
- adjective: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering“a barbarous crime”
- adjective: having the nature of vice
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
VICIOUS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as V4 I1 C3 I1 O1 U1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In VICIOUS
20 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (12)
2 letter words (8)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.