Hidden inside appealing sit appealing and lagniappe, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
appealing and lagniappe tie for the highest Scrabble score from appealing at 14 points. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in appealing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and appealing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appealing. For points, the strongest plays are appealing and lagniappe — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling appealing produces exactly one eight-letter word: lagnappe. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in appealing produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaping. For points, the strongest plays are genipap, lapping, and palping — 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 appealing turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appeal and nipple. For points, the strongest plays are pigpen and pipage — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in appealing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, alien, angel, angle, apple, plain, and plane. For points, the strongest plays are appal, appel, apple, nappa, nappe, palpi, papal, pepla, and pipal — 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 appealing produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, lane, lean, leap, line, nail, and page. For points, the strongest plays are palp, papa, pipa, and pipe — 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 appealing turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ape, gal, gap, lap, leg, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, pep, and pip — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in appealing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in appealing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in appealing 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.
appealing 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 5-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 appealing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
appealing is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing appealing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are appealing and lagniappe, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from appealing 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 appealing produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.