aspartame needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 294 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aspartame is the highest-scoring word from aspartame, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 294 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in aspartame — and it is aspartame itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling aspartame produces exactly one eight-letter word: patamars. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in aspartame produces 5 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 patamar, restamp, stamper, and tampers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling aspartame turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master. For points, the strongest plays are praams, remaps, tamper, and tramps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aspartame. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, areas and mates. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including ramps, sperm and stamp.
Rearranging the letters in aspartame produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, area and arms. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including maps, ramp and temp.
Unscrambling aspartame turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and arm. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aspartame. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in aspartame plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aspartame 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.
aspartame 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 one sense for aspartame. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
aspartame is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aspartame unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is aspartame, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from aspartame 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 aspartame produce 294 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.