apostles needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 358 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apostles is the highest-scoring word from apostles, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 358 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in apostles — and it is apostles itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in apostles produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with topless. For points, the strongest plays are apostle, pastels, pelotas, petasos, postals, sapotes, staples, tapless, and topless — 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 apostles turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plates and steals. For points, the strongest plays are aslope, estops, lapses, paleos, palest, palets, paseos, passel, pastel, pastes, pelota, pestos, petals, plates, pleats, posset, postal, ptoses, saleps, sapote, sepals, septal, slopes, spales, spates, spelts, splats, stapes, staple, stopes, and tepals — 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 104 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apostles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasts, leaps, leapt, least, loses, pasts, and plate. For points, the strongest plays are apses, estop, lapse, leaps, leapt, lepta, lopes, opals, paleo, pales, palet, paseo, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pates, peals, peats, pelts, pesos, pesto, pests, petal, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, plots, poets, poles, poses, posse, posts, psoae, psoas, salep, salps, sepal, septa, septs, slaps, slept, slope, slops, soaps, spaes, spale, spate, spats, spelt, splat, spots, steps, stope, stops, tapes, tepal, tepas, and topes — 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 apostles produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, apes, laps, last, late, leap, and less. For points, the strongest plays are alps, apes, apos, apse, asps, atop, laps, leap, lept, lope, lops, opal, opas, opes, opts, pale, pals, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, peal, peas, peat, pelt, peso, pest, pets, plat, plea, plot, poet, pole, pols, pose, post, pots, psst, salp, saps, seps, sept, slap, slop, soap, sops, spae, spas, spat, spot, step, stop, epos, tape, taps, tepa, tope, 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 apostles turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass, ate, eat, lap, let, and lot. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apo, apt, asp, lap, lop, opa, ope, ops, opt, pal, pas, pat, pea, pes, pet, pol, pos, pot, pst, sap, sop, spa, tap, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apostles. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in apostles 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.
apostles 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 apostles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
apostles is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apostles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is apostles, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from apostles 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 apostles produce 358 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 104 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.