apparently 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, 379 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apparently is the highest-scoring word from apparently, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 379 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in apparently — and it is apparently itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apparently produces exactly one nine-letter word: planetary. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apparently. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apparent, preplant, and trappean, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in apparently produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with penalty. For points, the strongest plays are papyral, playpen, and reapply — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apparently turns up 60 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appeal, appear and nearly. For points, the strongest plays are appley, papery, prepay, and yapper — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 94 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apparently. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, altar and alter. For points, the strongest plays are apply and nappy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in apparently produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, earn and lane. For points, the strongest play is typp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apparently turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any and ape. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including pay, yep and ply.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apparently. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
apparently 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 3-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 apparently. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
apparently is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apparently unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is apparently, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from apparently 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 apparently produce 379 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 60 six-letter words, 94 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.