appraisals needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
appraisals is the highest-scoring word from appraisals, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in appraisals — and it is appraisals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling appraisals turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is appraisal, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in appraisals. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aplasias and parasail, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in appraisals produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is palapas, 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 appraisals turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are appals, palapa, and pipals, 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 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in appraisals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liars, pairs, sails, salsa, slaps, and slips. For points, the strongest plays are appal, palpi, palps, papal, papas, pipal, and pipas — 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 appraisals produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, laps, liar, lips, pair, pals, and pass. For points, the strongest plays are apps, palp, papa, paps, pipa, and pips — 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 appraisals turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ass, lap, lip, pal, rap, and rip. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, and pip — 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 appraisals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
appraisals 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 three senses for appraisals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
appraisals is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing appraisals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is appraisals, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from appraisals 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 appraisals produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.