Hidden inside apers sit apers, apres, asper and 9 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apers, apres, asper and 0 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from apers at 7 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 12 five-letter words hiding in apers: eleven come from rearranging its letters, and apers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spare. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, rapes, reaps, spare, and spear — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in apers produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears, eras, peas, raps, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, pare, pars, pase, pear, peas, rape, raps, rasp, reap, reps, spae, and spar — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling apers turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, pea, per, and rap. For points, the strongest plays are ape, asp, par, pas, pea, per, pes, rap, rep, sap, and spa — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
75 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in apers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in apers and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
apers 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 1-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 apers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
apers is one of twelve five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apers, apres, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, rapes, reaps, spare, and spear, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from apers 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 apers produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 12 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.