Hidden inside apostle sit apostle and pelotas, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 257 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apostle and pelotas tie for the highest Scrabble score from apostle at 9 points. The top 10 of 257 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in apostle: one comes from rearranging its letters, and apostle 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 apostle and pelotas, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apostle turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plates. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including plates, aslope and paleos.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apostle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaps, leapt and least. For points, 40 words tie at 7 points, including leaps, leapt and plate.
Rearranging the letters in apostle produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, apes and laps. For points, 52 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling apostle turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate and eat. For points, 26 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and pal.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apostle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
12 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in apostle plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in apostle 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.
apostle 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 apostle. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
apostle is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apostle unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apostle and pelotas, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from apostle 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 apostle produce 257 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.