apertures needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 395 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apertures is the highest-scoring word from apertures, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 395 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in apertures — and it is apertures itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apertures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treasure. For points, the strongest plays are aperture, pasturer, raptures, and taperers — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in apertures produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeats. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including repeats, epaters and parters.
Unscrambling apertures turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter and purest. For points, 38 words tie at 8 points, including purest, repeat and sparer.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apertures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, parts and pause. For points, 68 words tie at 7 points, including parts, pause and purer.
Rearranging the letters in apertures produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts and ears. For points, 50 words tie at 6 points, including apes, part and past.
Unscrambling apertures turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 24 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and pee.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apertures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in apertures plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in apertures 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.
apertures 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 three senses for apertures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
apertures is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apertures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is apertures, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from apertures 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 apertures produce 395 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.