apartments needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 557 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apartments is the highest-scoring word from apartments, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 557 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in apartments — and it is apartments itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apartments turns up 2 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apartment. For points, the strongest plays are apartment and paraments — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apartments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patterns. For points, the strongest plays are mantraps, parament, parmesan, and spearman — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in apartments produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with matters, parents, and pattern. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including mantrap, rampant and restamp.
Unscrambling apartments turns up 85 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master, matter and parent. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including tempts, apeman and praams.
There are 162 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apartments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, areas and earns. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including ramps, sperm and stamp.
Rearranging the letters in apartments produces 161 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants and apes. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including maps, ramp and temp.
Unscrambling apartments turns up 78 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apartments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
apartments 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 apartments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
apartments is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apartments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is apartments, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from apartments 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 apartments produce 557 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 85 six-letter words, 162 five-letter words, 161 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.