apartment needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 223 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apartment is the highest-scoring word from apartment, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 223 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in apartment — and it is apartment itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apartment produces exactly one eight-letter word: parament. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in apartment produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pattern. For points, the strongest plays are mantrap and rampant — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apartment turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with matter and parent. For points, the strongest plays are apeman, preman, tampan, and tamper — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apartment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, meant, tempt, and treat. For points, the strongest plays are praam, remap, tempt, and tramp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in apartment produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, area and earn. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including ramp, temp and perm.
Unscrambling apartment turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape and are. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apartment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, and me. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in apartment plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in apartment 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.
apartment 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 one sense for apartment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
apartment is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apartment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is apartment, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from apartment 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 apartment produce 223 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.