apothecary needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 467 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apothecary is the highest-scoring word from apothecary, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 467 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in apothecary — and it is apothecary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in apothecary produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chapter and therapy. For points, the strongest plays are charpoy, eparchy, and preachy — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apothecary turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, poetry, theory, and trophy. For points, the strongest plays are cypher, patchy, peachy, and poachy — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apothecary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, apart and cater. For points, 7 words tie at 13 points, including chary, harpy and heapy.
Rearranging the letters in apothecary produces 152 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahoy, area and cape. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including achy, chay and hype.
Unscrambling apothecary turns up 108 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, act and aha. For points, the strongest play is hyp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apothecary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at and ay. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ay and eh.
apothecary 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in apothecary carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for apothecary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
apothecary is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apothecary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is apothecary, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from apothecary 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 apothecary produce 467 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 14 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 152 four-letter words, 108 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.