Hidden inside appall sit appall and palpal, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
appall and palpal tie for the highest Scrabble score from appall at 10 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in appall: one comes from rearranging its letters, and appall itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are appall and palpal, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in appall. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are appal and papal, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in appall produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are palp and papa, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in appall plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in appall and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
appall 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 4-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 appall. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
appall is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing appall unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are appall and palpal, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from appall 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 appall produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.