Hidden inside collapses sit collapses and escallops, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 299 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
collapses and escallops tie for the highest Scrabble score from collapses at 13 points. The top 10 of 299 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in collapses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and collapses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with collapses. For points, the strongest plays are collapses and escallops — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collapses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with collapse. For points, the strongest plays are collapse, escallop, escalops, scallops, and scalpels — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in collapses produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are capless, escalop, scallop, scalpel, and scapose, each 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 collapses turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closes, locals, places, scales, spaces, and spells. For points, the strongest plays are clasps, copals, copses, places, scalps, scapes, scopae, scopes, and spaces — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collapses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calls, capes, cases, cells, claps, class, and close. For points, the strongest plays are capes, capos, claps, clasp, clops, copal, copes, copse, paces, place, scalp, scape, scopa, scope, scops, space, and specs — 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 collapses produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, apes, laps, leap, less, lose, and loss. For points, the strongest plays are pace, pacs, pecs, scop, spec, cape, capo, caps, ceps, clap, clop, cope, and cops — 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 collapses turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ape, ass, cap, cop, lap, and pal. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, cop, pac, and pec — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collapses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in collapses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in collapses 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.
collapses 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for collapses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
collapses is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing collapses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are collapses and escallops, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from collapses 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 collapses produce 299 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.