Hidden inside lapes sit lapse, leaps, pales and 5 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LAPES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to LAPSE, LEAPS, PALES, PEALS, PLEAS and 3 more.
lapse, leaps, pales and 2 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from lapes at 7 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lapes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaps. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including leaps, lapse and pales.
Rearranging the letters in lapes produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, laps and leap. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling lapes turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, lap and pal. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and pal.
42 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in lapes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lapes and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lapse, leaps, pales, peals, pleas, salep, sepal, and spale, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lapes 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 lapes produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 8 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.