antipathy needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antipathy is the highest-scoring word from antipathy, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in antipathy — and it is antipathy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling antipathy turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apathy and phytin, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antipathy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paint. For points, the strongest play is pithy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in antipathy produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hint, hiya and pain. For points, the strongest plays are ayah, hiya, and nyah — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling antipathy turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and ant. For points, the strongest play is hyp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antipathy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ay and ha.
Swap a single tile in antipathy 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.
antipathy 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in antipathy carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for antipathy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
antipathy is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing antipathy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is antipathy, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from antipathy 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 antipathy produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.