approbates 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, 521 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
approbates is the highest-scoring word from approbates, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 521 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in approbates — and it is approbates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling approbates produces exactly one nine-letter word: approbate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approbates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parapets, probates, and trappose, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in approbates produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appears. For points, the strongest play is boppers — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling approbates turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, appear and barest. For points, the strongest play is bopper — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 137 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approbates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, apart and areas. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including paper, popes and props.
Rearranging the letters in approbates produces 172 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, area and arts. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including pope, pops and prop.
Unscrambling approbates turns up 96 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approbates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and be. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including be, ab and ba.
approbates 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 approbates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
approbates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing approbates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is approbates, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from approbates 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 approbates produce 521 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 137 five-letter words, 172 four-letter words, 96 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.