approbate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 191 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
approbate is the highest-scoring word from approbate, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 191 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in approbate — and it is approbate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in approbate produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parapet and probate, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling approbate turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appear. For points, the strongest play is bopper — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approbate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, apart, opera, and paper. For points, the strongest plays are paper, preop, probe, and rebop — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in approbate produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, bare and bear. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including pope, prop and papa.
Unscrambling approbate turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including pop, app and bap.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approbate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, or, and to. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including be, ab and ba.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in approbate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in approbate 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.
approbate 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 3-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 approbate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
approbate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing approbate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is approbate, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from approbate 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 approbate produce 191 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.