apothegms needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 468 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apothegms is the highest-scoring word from apothegms, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 468 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in apothegms — and it is apothegms itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apothegms. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is apothegm, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in apothegms produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hostage. For points, the strongest plays are apothem and empaths — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling apothegms turns up 17 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is empath, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apothegms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, games, gates, ghost, goats, hates, and heats. For points, the strongest plays are hemps and pashm — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in apothegms produces 193 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ahem, apes, atom, maps, mate, and math. For points, the strongest play is hemp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling apothegms turns up 118 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ape, ash, ate, eat, and ego. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hap, hem, hep, hom, hop, meh, mho, ohm, pah, peh, pho, pht, and poh — 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 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apothegms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, at, eh, go, and ha. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 apothegms and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
apothegms 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 one sense for apothegms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
apothegms is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apothegms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is apothegms, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from apothegms 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 apothegms produce 468 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 193 four-letter words, 118 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.