approve needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
approve is the highest-scoring word from approve, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in approve — and it is approve itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approve. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, paper, and prove. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including prove, parve and parvo.
Rearranging the letters in approve produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with over, pope, prop, and rope. For points, the strongest plays are pave, perv, and vape — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling approve turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ear. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, pep, and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approve. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in approve plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in approve and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
approve 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 approve. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
approve is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing approve unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is approve, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from approve 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 approve produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 11 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.