Hidden inside elapses sit elapses, pleases, and sapeles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elapses, pleases, and sapeles tie for the highest Scrabble score from elapses at 9 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in elapses: two come from rearranging its letters, and elapses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elapses, pleases, and sapeles, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling elapses turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, leases, please, and sleeps. For points, the strongest plays are asleep, elapse, lapses, passee, passel, peases, please, saleps, sapele, sepals, sleeps, spales, and speels — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elapses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, leaps, lease, peels, sales, seals, and slaps. For points, the strongest plays are apses, lapse, leaps, pales, pases, passe, peals, pease, peels, peles, pleas, salep, salps, seeps, sepal, slaps, sleep, spaes, spale, and speel — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in elapses produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ease, else, laps, leap, less, and pals. For points, the strongest plays are alps, apes, apse, asps, laps, leap, pale, pals, pase, pass, peal, peas, peel, pees, pele, plea, salp, saps, seep, seps, slap, spae, and spas — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling elapses turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass, lap, pal, pea, pee, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, asp, lap, pal, pas, pea, pee, pes, sap, and spa — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elapses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — 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 elapses 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.
elapses 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for elapses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
elapses is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing elapses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elapses, pleases, and sapeles, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from elapses 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 elapses produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.