Hidden inside aphelion sit aphelion and phelonia, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aphelion and phelonia tie for the highest Scrabble score from aphelion at 13 points. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in aphelion: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aphelion itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aphelion and phelonia, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aphelion produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pinhole, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aphelion turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are holpen, phenol, and phonal, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aphelion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alone, phone, piano, plain, and plane. For points, the strongest plays are aleph, phial, and phone — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aphelion produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hail, heal, help, hole, hope, lane, and lean. For points, the strongest plays are epha, heap, help, holp, hope, opah, pheo, and phon — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aphelion turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, hen, hip, hop, lap, lie, and lip. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, hip, hop, pah, peh, phi, pho, and poh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aphelion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, eh, ha, he, hi, and ho. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, ho, and oh — each worth 5 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 aphelion and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
aphelion 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 one sense for aphelion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
aphelion is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aphelion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aphelion and phelonia, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aphelion 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 aphelion produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.