apprentice needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 442 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apprentice is the highest-scoring word from apprentice, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 442 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in apprentice — and it is apprentice itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apprentice produces exactly one nine-letter word: epicentra. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apprentice. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patience. For points, the strongest play is praecipe — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in apprentice produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain, percent, and receipt. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including crappie, epicarp and percept.
Unscrambling apprentice turns up 86 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, center and create. For points, the strongest plays are capper, peptic, and precip — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apprentice. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, eaten and enter. For points, 21 words tie at 9 points, including panic, paper and peace.
Rearranging the letters in apprentice produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, care and cart. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including cape, crap and epic.
Unscrambling apprentice turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including cap, app and cep.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apprentice. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in apprentice plus one additional letter.
apprentice 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 4-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 apprentice. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
apprentice is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apprentice unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is apprentice, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from apprentice 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 apprentice produce 442 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 11 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 86 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.