applauses needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 183 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
applauses is the highest-scoring word from applauses, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 183 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in applauses — and it is applauses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in applauses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with applause. For points, the strongest plays are applause and appulses — 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 applauses produces 7 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, supples, 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 applauses turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appeal, apples, and pauses. 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 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in applauses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apple, leaps, pause, sales, salsa, seals, and slaps. 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 applauses produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, laps, leap, less, pals, pass, and peas. 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 applauses turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass, lap, pal, pea, sea, and sue. 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 applauses. 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.
applauses 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 applauses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
applauses is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing applauses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is applauses, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from applauses 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 applauses produce 183 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.