Hidden inside apostils sit apostils and topsails, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 273 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apostils and topsails tie for the highest Scrabble score from apostils at 10 points. The top 10 of 273 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in apostils: one comes from rearranging its letters, and apostils 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 apostils and topsails, 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 apostils produces 6 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 apostil, pastils, pistols, postals, spitals, and topsail, 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 apostils turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pilots, splits, spoils, and spoilt. For points, the strongest plays are pastil, pastis, patios, patois, pilots, pistol, plaits, posits, postal, ptosis, spails, spaits, spital, splats, splits, spoils, and spoilt — 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 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apostils. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasts, lists, pasts, pilot, plots, posts, and sails. For points, the strongest plays are apsis, aspis, lapis, lipas, lipos, lisps, opals, pails, palis, pasts, patio, pilot, pisos, pitas, plait, plats, plots, polis, posit, posts, psoai, psoas, salps, slaps, slips, slipt, slops, soaps, spail, spait, spats, spilt, spits, splat, split, spoil, spots, stops, tapis, and topis — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in apostils produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, laps, last, lips, list, loss, and lost. For points, the strongest plays are alps, apos, asps, atop, laps, lipa, lipo, lips, lisp, lops, opal, opas, opts, pail, pali, pals, pass, past, pats, pial, pias, piso, piss, pita, pits, plat, plot, pois, pols, post, pots, psis, psst, salp, saps, sips, slap, slip, slop, soap, sops, spas, spat, spit, spot, stop, taps, tips, topi, and tops — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling apostils turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, its, lap, lip, lit, lot, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are alp, apo, apt, asp, lap, lip, lop, opa, ops, opt, pal, pas, pat, pia, pis, pit, poi, pol, pos, pot, psi, pst, sap, sip, sop, spa, tap, tip, and top — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apostils. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, 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.
Swap a single tile in apostils 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.
apostils 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.
apostils is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apostils unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apostils and topsails, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from apostils 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 apostils produce 273 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.