compare needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
compare is the highest-scoring word from compare, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in compare — and it is compare itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compare. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cream and opera. For points, the strongest plays are campo and cramp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in compare produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with came, camp and cape. For points, the strongest plays are camp and comp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling compare turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and arm. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cop and map.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compare. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, me, and or. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in compare plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in compare and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
compare 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 compare. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
compare is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing compare unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is compare, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from compare 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 compare produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.