apostrophe needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 609 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apostrophe is the highest-scoring word from apostrophe, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 609 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in apostrophe — and it is apostrophe itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apostrophe. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are prophase and prophets, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in apostrophe produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with perhaps, poorest, and propose. For points, the strongest plays are hoppers, perhaps, prophet, and shopper — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apostrophe turns up 73 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearts, operas and oppose. For points, the strongest plays are hopper and shoppe — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 167 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apostrophe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth, hates and hears. For points, 22 words tie at 10 points, including hoops, hopes and paths.
Rearranging the letters in apostrophe produces 198 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts and oath. For points, 22 words tie at 9 points, including path, shop and hoop.
Unscrambling apostrophe turns up 107 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including hop, hap and hep.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apostrophe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in apostrophe plus one additional letter.
apostrophe 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for apostrophe. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
apostrophe is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apostrophe unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is apostrophe, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from apostrophe 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 apostrophe produce 609 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 73 six-letter words, 167 five-letter words, 198 four-letter words, 107 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.