attempts needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attempts is the highest-scoring word from attempts, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in attempts — and it is attempts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in attempts produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: attempt, 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 attempts turns up 5 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: tempts, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attempts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mates, meats, stamp, state, steam, tapes, and taste. For points, the strongest plays are stamp, tamps, temps, and tempt — 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 attempts produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, east, eats, maps, mate, meat, and past. For points, the strongest plays are amps, maps, pams, samp, spam, tamp, and temp — 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 attempts turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate, eat, map, met, pea, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attempts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, 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 attempts 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.
attempts 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 four senses for attempts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
attempts is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing attempts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is attempts, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from attempts 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 attempts produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.