Hidden inside interlaps sit interlaps, traplines, and triplanes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 994 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
interlaps, traplines, and triplanes tie for the highest Scrabble score from interlaps at 11 points. The top 10 of 994 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in interlaps: two come from rearranging its letters, and interlaps itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are interlaps, traplines, and triplanes, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlaps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plainest. For points, the strongest plays are interlap, painters, panelist, pantiles, pantries, pertains, pilaster, pinaster, plainest, plaister, plaiters, planters, pralines, pristane, repaints, replants, splinter, trapline, and triplane — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in interlaps produces 92 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastier, panties, parents, parties, pirates, plainer, and planets. For points, the strongest plays are alpines, aplites, arpents, entraps, leptins, painter, paliest, palsier, palters, paniers, panties, pantile, parents, parties, pastern, pastier, patines, persalt, pertain, piaster, piastre, pilsner, pineals, pintles, pirates, plainer, plaints, plaiter, planers, planets, planter, plaster, platens, platers, platier, platies, plenist, praline, praties, psalter, pterins, rapines, repaint, replans, replant, resplit, sapient, spaniel, spinate, spirant, splenia, stapler, talipes, traipse, trepans, and triples — 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 interlaps turns up 191 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, aliens, alters, learns, listen, paints, and parent. For points, the strongest plays are alpine, aplite, arpens, arpent, aspire, enrapt, entrap, espial, esprit, instep, lapins, lapser, leptin, lipase, lisper, paints, palest, palets, palier, palter, panels, panier, pantie, parens, parent, paries, parles, pastel, paster, pastie, pastil, patens, paters, patine, patins, pearls, penial, pensil, perils, petals, petsai, pietas, pineal, pineta, pintas, pintle, pirate, plains, plaint, plaits, planer, planes, planet, plants, platen, plater, plates, pleats, pliant, pliers, praise, prates, pratie, priest, prints, pterin, ptisan, rapine, rapist, repast, repins, replan, ripens, ripest, septal, sitrep, sniper, spinal, spinel, spinet, spiral, spirea, spital, splent, spline, splint, sprain, sprent, sprint, sprite, staple, stipel, stripe, tapers, tapirs, tepals, trapes, trepan, tripes, and triple — 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 300 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlaps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alien, alter, nails, pains, and paint. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apter, arpen, aspen, asper, atrip, napes, neaps, nipas, pails, pains, paint, pairs, paise, paler, pales, palet, palis, panel, panes, pants, paren, pares, paris, parle, parse, parts, paste, paten, pater, pates, patin, peals, peans, pearl, pears, peart, peats, peins, pelts, penal, penis, peril, peris, petal, pians, piers, pieta, pilar, pilea, piles, pinas, pines, pinta, pints, pirns, piste, pitas, plain, plait, plane, plans, plant, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, plena, plier, plies, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, pries, print, prise, rapes, reaps, repin, ripen, ripes, salep, sepal, sepia, septa, slept, slipe, slipt, sneap, snipe, spail, spait, spale, spare, spate, spean, spear, speil, speir, spelt, spent, spiel, spier, spile, spilt, spine, spire, spirt, spite, splat, split, sprat, sprit, stipe, stirp, strap, strep, strip, taper, tapes, tapir, tapis, tarps, tepal, tepas, inapt, inept, lapin, lapis, lapse, larps, leaps, leapt, lepta, lipas, traps, tripe, and trips — 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 interlaps produces 246 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, apes, arts, lane, laps, and last. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, laps, larp, leap, lept, lipa, lipe, lips, lisp, nape, naps, neap, nipa, nips, pail, pain, pair, pale, pali, pals, pane, pans, pant, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, pean, pear, peas, peat, pein, pelt, pens, pent, peri, pert, pest, pets, pial, pian, pias, pier, pies, pile, pina, pine, pins, pint, pirn, pita, pits, plan, plat, plea, plie, prat, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, ripe, rips, salp, sept, sipe, slap, slip, snap, snip, spae, span, spar, spat, spin, spit, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, tips, trap, and trip — 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 interlaps turns up 110 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, ape, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, asp, lap, lip, nap, nip, pal, pan, par, pas, pat, pea, pen, per, pes, pet, pia, pie, pin, pis, pit, psi, pst, rap, rep, rip, sap, sip, spa, tap, and tip — 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlaps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in interlaps plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in interlaps 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.
interlaps 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.
interlaps is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing interlaps unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are interlaps, traplines, and triplanes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from interlaps 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 interlaps produce 994 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 25 eight-letter words, 92 seven-letter words, 191 six-letter words, 300 five-letter words, 246 four-letter words, 110 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.