adapts needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adapts is the highest-scoring word from adapts, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in adapts — and it is adapts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in adapts produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with data, pads and past. For points, the strongest plays are daps and pads — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling adapts turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, pad and sad. For points, the strongest plays are dap and pad — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in adapts and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
adapts is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for adapts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
adapts is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adapts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is adapts, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from adapts earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in adapts produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.