Hidden inside apheses sit apheses and spahees, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apheses and spahees tie for the highest Scrabble score from apheses at 12 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in apheses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and apheses 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 apheses and spahees, each 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 apheses turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phases and shapes. For points, the strongest plays are pashes, phases, shapes, and spahee — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apheses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, eases, phase, shape, and sheep. For points, the strongest plays are ephas, hasps, heaps, phase, shape, and sheep — 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 apheses produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ease, pass, peas, pees, seas, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are epha, haps, hasp, heap, heps, pash, and pehs — 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 apheses turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ash, ass, has, pea, pee, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, pah, and peh — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apheses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — 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 apheses 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.
apheses 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in apheses carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
apheses is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apheses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apheses and spahees, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from apheses 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 apheses produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.