Hidden inside compiles sit compiles, complies, and polemics, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 239 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
compiles, complies, and polemics tie for the highest Scrabble score from compiles at 14 points. The top 10 of 239 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in compiles: two come from rearranging its letters, and compiles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are compiles, complies, and polemics, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in compiles produces 4 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 compels, compile, and polemic, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling compiles turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copies, police, and simple. For points, the strongest plays are clomps and compel — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compiles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clips, close and comes. For points, the strongest plays are clomp and comps — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in compiles produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clip, come and cops. For points, the strongest play is comp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling compiles turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, ice and lie. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including cop, mop and cep.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compiles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me, and so. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in compiles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in compiles 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.
compiles 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 three senses for compiles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
compiles is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing compiles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are compiles, complies, and polemics, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from compiles 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 compiles produce 239 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.