Hidden inside apricots sit apricots and piscator, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 360 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apricots and piscator tie for the highest Scrabble score from apricots at 12 points. The top 10 of 360 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in apricots: one comes from rearranging its letters, and apricots itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apricots and piscator, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in apricots produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apricot, aprotic, captors, parotic, picaros, prosaic, psoatic, and tropics, 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 apricots turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, racist, script, scrota, and topics. For points, the strongest plays are atopic, capots, capris, captor, cartop, coapts, copras, optics, picaro, picots, script, topics, 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 98 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apricots. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, carts, coast, coats, craps, pacts, and pairs. For points, the strongest plays are aspic, capos, capot, capri, carpi, carps, coapt, copra, corps, craps, crips, crisp, crops, optic, pacts, picas, picot, pisco, scarp, scopa, scrap, scrip, spica, 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 apricots produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, arts, pact, pair, part, and past. For points, the strongest plays are pacs, pact, pica, pics, scop, capo, caps, carp, copi, cops, crap, crip, and crop — 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 apricots turns up 74 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apricots. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, or, so, 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 apricots 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.
apricots 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 apricots. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
apricots is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apricots unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apricots and piscator, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from apricots 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 apricots produce 360 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 98 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.