Hidden inside asperses sit asperses and repasses, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asperses and repasses tie for the highest Scrabble score from asperses at 10 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in asperses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and asperses 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 asperses and repasses, 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 asperses produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with presses. For points, the strongest plays are asepses, asperse, pareses, passers, presses, and serapes — 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 asperses turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erases, passes, and spares. For points, the strongest plays are aspers, parses, passee, passer, passes, peases, perses, prases, repass, sepses, serape, spares, sparse, spears, speers, and sprees — 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asperses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, eases, erase, press, and spare. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apses, asper, pares, parse, pases, passe, pears, pease, peers, perea, peres, perse, prase, prees, presa, prese, press, rapes, rasps, reaps, seeps, spaes, spare, spars, spear, speer, and spree — 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 asperses produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears, ease, eras, pass, peas, and pees. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, asps, pare, pars, pase, pass, pear, peas, peer, pees, pere, pree, rape, raps, rasp, reap, reps, saps, seep, seps, spae, spar, and spas — 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 asperses turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ass, ear, era, pea, and pee. For points, the strongest plays are ape, asp, par, pas, pea, pee, per, pes, rap, rep, sap, and spa — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asperses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — 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 asperses 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.
asperses 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 one sense for asperses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
asperses is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing asperses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asperses and repasses, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from asperses 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 asperses produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.