appraises 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, 233 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
appraises is the highest-scoring word from appraises, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 233 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in appraises — and it is appraises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in appraises. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are appraise and apprises, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in appraises produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appears and praises. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including appears, appress and apprise.
Unscrambling appraises turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appear, papers and praise. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including appear, papers and pipers.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in appraises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, pairs and paper. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including paper, pipes and papas.
Rearranging the letters in appraises produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes and area. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including pipe, apps and papa.
Unscrambling appraises turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, pep, and pip — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in appraises. 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in appraises plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in appraises and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
appraises 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 appraises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
appraises is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing appraises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is appraises, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from appraises 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 appraises produce 233 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.