applause needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
applause is the highest-scoring word from applause, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in applause — and it is applause itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in applause produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appeals. For points, the strongest plays are appeals, appulse, papulae, papulas, papules, and upleaps — each 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 applause turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appeal and apples. For points, the strongest plays are appals, appeal, appels, apples, palpus, papula, papule, peplus, supple, and upleap — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in applause. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apple, leaps, and pause. For points, the strongest plays are appal, appel, apple, palps, papal, papas, pepla, pulps, pupae, pupal, and pupas — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in applause produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, laps, leap, pals, peas, plus, and sale. For points, the strongest plays are apps, palp, papa, paps, peps, pulp, pupa, and pups — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling applause turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, lap, pal, pea, sea, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, pep, and pup — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in applause. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in applause plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in applause and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
applause 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 one sense for applause. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
applause is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing applause unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is applause, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from applause 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 applause produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.