Hidden inside apologies sit apologies and apologise, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 317 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apologies and apologise tie for the highest Scrabble score from apologies at 12 points. The top 10 of 317 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in apologies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and apologies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apologies. For points, the strongest plays are apologies and apologise — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling apologies produces exactly one eight-letter word: spoilage. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in apologies produces 7 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 apologs and epilogs, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling apologies turns up 27 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apolog, epilog, galops, gloops, gospel, plages, pogies, and pogoes, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apologies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, goals, goose, leaps, loose, pages, and piles. For points, the strongest plays are galop, gapes, gloop, glops, goops, pages, peags, plage, and pogos — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in apologies produces 115 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also, apes, laps, leap, legs, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are page, peag, pegs, pigs, pogo, gape, gaps, gasp, gips, glop, and goop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling apologies turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ape, ego, gal, gap, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apologies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, go, is, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in apologies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in apologies 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.
apologies 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 3-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 apologies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
apologies is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apologies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apologies and apologise, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from apologies 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 apologies produce 317 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 115 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.