asperity needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 402 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asperity is the highest-scoring word from asperity, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 402 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in asperity — and it is asperity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in asperity produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parties and pirates. For points, the strongest plays are pyrites and stripey — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling asperity turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pirate, praise, priest, and stripe. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including parity, pastry and payers.
There are 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asperity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, parts and party. For points, 18 words tie at 10 points, including party, prays and spray.
Rearranging the letters in asperity produces 130 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes and arts. For points, 16 words tie at 9 points, including pays, pity and pray.
Unscrambling asperity turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including pay, spy and yep.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asperity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in asperity 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.
asperity 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in asperity carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for asperity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
asperity is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing asperity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is asperity, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from asperity 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 asperity produce 402 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 130 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.