Hidden inside apelike sit apelike and pealike, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apelike and pealike tie for the highest Scrabble score from apelike at 13 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in apelike: one comes from rearranging its letters, and apelike itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apelike and pealike, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling apelike produces exactly one six-letter word: kelpie. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apelike. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alike. For points, the strongest plays are apeek and kelep — 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 apelike produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with keep, lake, leak, leap, like, peel, and pile. For points, the strongest plays are keep, kelp, kepi, paik, peak, peek, peke, pika, and pike — 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 apelike turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, lap, lie, lip, pal, pea, and pee. For points, the strongest plays are kep, kip, and pak — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apelike. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ka and ki, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in apelike 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.
apelike 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 two senses for apelike. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
apelike is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apelike unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apelike and pealike, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from apelike 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 apelike produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.