Hidden inside antipodes sit antipodes and pintadoes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 698 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antipodes and pintadoes tie for the highest Scrabble score from antipodes at 12 points. The top 10 of 698 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in antipodes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and antipodes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antipodes and pintadoes, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antipodes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antipode, depaints, dioptase and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in antipodes produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deposit, donates and instead. For points, 25 words tie at 10 points, including deposit, painted and pointed.
Unscrambling antipodes turns up 83 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopts, donate and paints. For points, 25 words tie at 9 points, including adopts, posted and adepts.
There are 191 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antipodes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noise, notes and opens. For points, 30 words tie at 8 points, including ponds, posed and adopt.
Rearranging the letters in antipodes produces 213 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants and apes. For points, 19 words tie at 7 points, including pads, paid and pond.
Unscrambling antipodes turns up 116 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and and. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including dip, pad and dap.
There are 36 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antipodes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including op, pa and pe.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in antipodes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in antipodes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
antipodes 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for antipodes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
antipodes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing antipodes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antipodes and pintadoes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from antipodes 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 antipodes produce 698 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 83 six-letter words, 191 five-letter words, 213 four-letter words, 116 three-letter words and 36 two-letter words.