application needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 332 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
application is the highest-scoring word from application, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 332 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in application — and it is application itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling application turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is applicant, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in application. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are panoptic and poplitic, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in application produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capital and captain. For points, 15 words tie at 11 points, including capital, captain and aplitic.
Unscrambling application turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action and laptop. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including laptop, apical and atopic.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in application. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paint, panic and piano. For points, 18 words tie at 9 points, including panic, topic and appal.
Rearranging the letters in application produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clap, clip and coat. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including clap, clip and pact.
Unscrambling application turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and can. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cop and pop.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in application. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in application plus one additional letter.
application 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for application. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
application is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing application unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is application, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from application 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 application produce 332 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.