Hidden inside apples sit appels and apples, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
appels and apples tie for the highest Scrabble score from apples at 10 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in apples: one comes from rearranging its letters, and apples itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apples. For points, the strongest plays are appels and apples — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apple and leaps. For points, the strongest plays are appel, apple, palps, and pepla — 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 apples produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, laps, leap, pals, peas, sale, and seal. For points, the strongest plays are apps, palp, paps, and peps — 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 apples turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, lap, pal, pea, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, and pep — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in apples 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.
apples 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.
apples is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apples unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are appels and apples, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from apples 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 apples produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.