approaches needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 500 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
approaches is the highest-scoring word from approaches, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 500 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in approaches — and it is approaches itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling approaches turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are copperahs and scrapheap, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approaches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with approach. For points, the strongest plays are approach, choppers, and copperah — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in approaches produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appears, perhaps, and porches. For points, the strongest plays are chopper and schappe — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling approaches turns up 73 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appear, chores and corpse. For points, 14 words tie at 13 points, including apache, carhop and chapes.
There are 136 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approaches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, capes and cares. For points, 13 words tie at 12 points, including cheap, chops and peach.
Rearranging the letters in approaches produces 145 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, area and peas. For points, the strongest plays are pech, caph, chap, and chop — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling approaches turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and ape. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including hop, hap and hep.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approaches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and eh. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
approaches 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 approaches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
approaches is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing approaches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is approaches, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from approaches 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 approaches produce 500 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 73 six-letter words, 136 five-letter words, 145 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.