approach needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
approach is the highest-scoring word from approach, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in approach — and it is approach itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling approach produces exactly one seven-letter word: apocarp. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling approach turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carhop, coprah, and paraph, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approach. If a familiar word is all you need, start with porch. For points, the strongest plays are pacha, parch, poach, and porch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in approach produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chop, crap, and prop. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, and chop — 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 approach turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha, cap, car, cop, hop, and pop. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hop, och, pah, pho, and poh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approach. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, ha, ho, oh, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in approach plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in approach 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.
approach 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 fourteen senses for approach. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
approach is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing approach unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is approach, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from approach 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 approach produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.