Hidden inside compares sit capsomer, compares, and mesocarp, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 383 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
capsomer, compares, and mesocarp tie for the highest Scrabble score from compares at 14 points. The top 10 of 383 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in compares: two come from rearranging its letters, and compares itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with compares. For points, the strongest plays are capsomer, compares, and mesocarp — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in compares produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with compare. For points, the strongest plays are campers, compare, pomaces, and scamper — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling compares turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corpse, creams, operas, scrape, and scream. For points, the strongest plays are camper, campos, compas, cramps, and pomace — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compares. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camps, capes, cares, comas, comes, cores, and crams. For points, the strongest plays are campo, camps, comps, cramp, and scamp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in compares produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arms, maps, mops, more, peas, and poem. For points, the strongest plays are camp and comp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling compares turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, arm, cap, car, cop, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are amp, cam, cap, cep, cop, mac, map, moc, mop, pac, pam, pec, and pom — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compares. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, me, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mo, om, 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.
Swap a single tile in compares 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.
compares 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for compares. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
compares is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing compares unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are capsomer, compares, and mesocarp, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from compares 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 compares produce 383 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.