apanage needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apanage is the highest-scoring word from apanage, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in apanage — and it is apanage itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apanage produces exactly one six-letter word: agapae. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apanage. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agape, pagan, and panga, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in apanage produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with page. For points, the strongest plays are gape, page, pang, and peag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apanage turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ape and gap. For points, the strongest plays are gap and peg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in apanage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in apanage and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
apanage 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 3-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 apanage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
apanage is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apanage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is apanage, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from apanage 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 apanage produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.