approvals needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
approvals is the highest-scoring word from approvals, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in approvals — and it is approvals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling approvals produces exactly one eight-letter word: approval. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in approvals produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is poplars, 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 approvals turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parvos and vapors, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approvals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lavas, props, and solar. For points, the strongest plays are parvo and vapor — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in approvals produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, laps, lava, oral, pals, pops, and prop. For points, the strongest plays are apps, palp, papa, paps, plop, pops, and prop — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling approvals turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lap, pal, pop, pro, and rap. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approvals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in approvals 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.
approvals 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 four senses for approvals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
approvals is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing approvals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is approvals, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from approvals 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 approvals produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.