Hidden inside apricot sit apricot, aprotic, and parotic, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apricot, aprotic, and parotic tie for the highest Scrabble score from apricot at 11 points. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in apricot: two come from rearranging its letters, and apricot itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apricot, aprotic, and parotic, each 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 apricot turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are atopic, captor, cartop, picaro, and tropic, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apricot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor and topic. For points, the strongest plays are capot, capri, carpi, coapt, copra, optic, picot, and topic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in apricot produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, coat, crap, pact, pair, part, and riot. For points, the strongest plays are capo, carp, copi, crap, crip, crop, pact, and pica — 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 apricot turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, art, cap, car, cat, and cop. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cop, pac, and pic — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apricot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, it, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pi, 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 apricot 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.
apricot 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for apricot. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
apricot is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apricot unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apricot, aprotic, and parotic, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from apricot 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 apricot produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.