Hidden inside apertured sit apertured and departure, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 245 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apertured and departure tie for the highest Scrabble score from apertured at 12 points. The top 10 of 245 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in apertured: one comes from rearranging its letters, and apertured itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apertured and departure, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apertured. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are depurate, raptured, and upreared, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in apertured produces 14 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adepter, erupted, perdure and 6 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apertured turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearer, repeat, retard, and update. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including update, depart and depute.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apertured. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purer, ruder and taped. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including taped, adept and drape.
Rearranging the letters in apertured produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and aped.
Unscrambling apertured turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including pad, dap and dep.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apertured. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, and up. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in apertured plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in apertured 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.
apertured is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
apertured is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apertured unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apertured and departure, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from apertured 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 apertured produce 245 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.