appanages needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
appanages is the highest-scoring word from appanages, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in appanages — and it is appanages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in appanages. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is appanage, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in appanages produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is papasan, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling appanages turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nappas and nappes, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in appanages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pages. For points, the strongest plays are nappa, nappe, and papas — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in appanages produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, apes and gaps. For points, the strongest plays are apps, papa, paps, and peps — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling appanages turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ape and gap. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, and pep — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in appanages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in appanages 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.
appanages 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 appanages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
appanages is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing appanages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is appanages, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from appanages 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 appanages produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.