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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
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, notepads, pintados, and satinpod, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in antipodes produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deposit, donates, instead, painted, panties, and pointed. For points, the strongest plays are adipose, dapsone, depaint, deposit, dipnets, dopants, dopiest, notepad, opiated, painted, pandies, pandits, pantsed, patined, pedants, pentads, pintado, podesta, podites, pointed, posited, sandpit, sopited, stipend, and topside — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling antipodes turns up 83 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopts, donate, paints, pianos, points, ponies, and posted. For points, the strongest plays are adepts, adopts, depots, despot, dipnet, dopant, dopest, opined, pained, pandit, panted, pasted, pedant, pentad, podite, poinds, poised, ponied, posted, sniped, soaped, spined, spited, stiped, and stoped — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
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, opens, pains, paint, pants, and penis. For points, the strongest plays are naped, opted, padis, paned, pated, pedis, pends, pined, podia, poind, ponds, posed, adept, adopt, apods, depot, dipso, dopas, dopes, sapid, siped, spade, spado, spaed, spend, spied, spode, taped, tepid, and toped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in antipodes produces 213 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants, apes, naps, neat, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are aped, apod, oped, padi, pads, paid, pedi, peds, pend, pied, pods, pond, sped, daps, deps, dips, dipt, dopa, and dope — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling antipodes turns up 116 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, ant, ape, ate, and die. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, dip, pad, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
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, as, at, do, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
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.