apophasis needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apophasis is the highest-scoring word from apophasis, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in apophasis — and it is apophasis itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apophasis produces exactly one eight-letter word: apoapsis. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apophasis turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are happis and hippos, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apophasis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ships, shops, and soaps. For points, the strongest plays are happi and hippo — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in apophasis produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hips, hops, pass, pops, ship, shop, and sips. For points, the strongest plays are haps, hasp, hips, hops, opah, pash, phis, phos, pish, posh, ship, shop, and soph — 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 apophasis turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha, ash, ass, has, hip, and his. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hip, hop, pah, 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apophasis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, ha, hi, ho, is, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, hi, ho, oh, 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 apophasis 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.
apophasis 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for apophasis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
apophasis is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apophasis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is apophasis, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from apophasis 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 apophasis produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.