appraise 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, 167 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
appraise is the highest-scoring word from appraise, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 167 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in appraise — and it is appraise itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in appraise produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appears. For points, the strongest plays are appears, apprise, and sappier — 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 appraise turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appear, papers, and praise. For points, the strongest plays are appear, papers, pipers, sapper, and sipper — 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 appraise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, pairs, paper, pipes, raise, and spare. For points, the strongest plays are papas, paper, perps, pipas, piper, pipes, preps, and repps — 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 appraise produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, area, ears, eras, pair, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are apps, papa, paps, peps, perp, pipa, pipe, pips, prep, and repp — 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 appraise turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, ear, era, pea, and per. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, pep, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in appraise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, 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.
Swap a single tile in appraise 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.
appraise 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for appraise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
appraise is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing appraise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is appraise, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from appraise 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 appraise produce 167 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.