Hidden inside asperities sit asperities and patisserie, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 578 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asperities and patisserie tie for the highest Scrabble score from asperities at 12 points. The top 10 of 578 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in asperities: one comes from rearranging its letters, and asperities itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asperities and patisserie, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling asperities produces exactly one nine-letter word: patissier. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asperities. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epitases, epitasis, parietes, parities, pastries, piasters, piastres, raspiest, respites, spiriest, traipses, and trapeses, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in asperities produces 59 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest, easters, parties, pirates, praises, priests, and repeats. For points, the strongest plays are aperies, asperse, aspires, epaters, esprits, pareses, paresis, parises, parties, pasters, pastier, pasties, patsies, peatier, persist, pesetas, pesters, pestier, petsais, piaster, piastre, pieties, pirates, pissier, pitiers, praises, praties, presets, priests, rapists, repasts, repeats, respite, retapes, serapes, sitreps, sparest, spireas, spirits, spriest, sprites, stirpes, stripes, tapises, tipsier, and traipse — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling asperities turns up 122 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easier, easter, erases, pirate, pities, praise, and priest. For points, the strongest plays are aspers, aspire, epater, espies, esprit, etapes, paries, parses, passee, passer, paster, pastes, pastie, pastis, paters, peases, peises, pereia, periti, perses, peseta, pester, peters, petsai, pietas, pirate, pisser, pistes, pitier, pities, praise, prases, prates, pratie, preset, prests, priest, prises, rapist, repass, repast, repeat, retape, ripest, sepias, serape, sitrep, spaits, spares, sparse, spates, spears, speers, speirs, speise, spiers, spirea, spires, spirit, spirts, spites, sprats, sprees, sprite, sprits, stapes, steeps, stipes, stirps, straps, streps, stripe, strips, tapers, tapirs, trapes, and tripes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 164 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asperities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seats, sites, spare, spies, spits, stair, and stare. For points, the strongest plays are seeps, sepia, septa, septs, sipes, spaes, spait, spare, spars, spate, spats, spear, speer, speir, spier, spies, spire, spirt, spite, spits, sprat, spree, sprit, steep, steps, stipe, stirp, strap, strep, strip, taper, tapes, tapir, tapis, tarps, tepas, apers, apres, apses, apsis, apter, asper, aspis, atrip, etape, pairs, paise, pares, paris, parse, parts, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pater, pates, pears, peart, pease, peats, peers, peise, perea, peres, peris, perse, pests, peter, piers, pieta, piste, pitas, prase, prate, prats, prees, presa, prese, press, prest, pries, prise, priss, rapes, rasps, reaps, ripes, tipis, traps, tripe, and trips — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in asperities produces 127 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, arts, pair, part, pass, and past. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, asps, pair, pare, pars, part, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, peer, pees, pere, peri, pert, pest, pets, pias, pier, pies, piss, pita, pits, prat, pree, psis, psst, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, ripe, rips, saps, seep, seps, sept, sipe, sips, spae, spar, spas, spat, spit, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, tipi, tips, trap, and trip — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling asperities turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, art, ass, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, par, pas, pat, pea, pee, per, pes, pet, pia, pie, pis, pit, psi, pst, rap, rep, rip, sap, sip, spa, tap, and tip — each worth 5 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 asperities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in asperities plus one additional letter.
asperities 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 1-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 asperities. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
asperities is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing asperities unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asperities and patisserie, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from asperities 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 asperities produce 578 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 14 eight-letter words, 59 seven-letter words, 122 six-letter words, 164 five-letter words, 127 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.