approves needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 205 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
approves is the highest-scoring word from approves, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 205 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in approves — and it is approves itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in approves produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: approve, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling approves turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with operas, papers, and proves. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including proves, parvos and pavers.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, paper and popes. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including prove, parve and parvo.
Rearranging the letters in approves produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears and eras. For points, the strongest plays are pave, perv, and vape — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling approves turns up 48 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in approves plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in approves and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
approves 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 approves. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
approves is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing approves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is approves, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from approves 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 approves produce 205 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.