Hidden inside lapidates sit lapidates and stapedial, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 507 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lapidates and stapedial tie for the highest Scrabble score from lapidates at 12 points. The top 10 of 507 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in lapidates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lapidates 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 lapidates and stapedial, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lapidates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lapidate, palisade, and talipeds, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lapidates produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details. For points, the strongest plays are alipeds, apsidal, elapids, lapides, palsied, plaited, plastid, pleiads, spalted, stapled, and taliped — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lapidates turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail, ladies, lasted, listed, plates, sailed, and stadia. For points, the strongest plays are adapts, adepts, aliped, dispel, elapid, lapsed, lisped, padles, pasted, pedals, plaids, plated, pleads, pleiad, salpid, sliped, spiled, spited, and stiped — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 145 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lapidates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, aside, dates, deals, dealt, delis, and dials. For points, the strongest plays are adapt, adept, padis, padle, paled, pated, pedal, pedis, piled, plaid, plead, plied, sapid, siped, spade, spaed, spied, taped, and tepid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lapidates produces 159 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, apes, lads, laid, laps, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are aped, padi, pads, paid, pedi, peds, pied, pled, sped, daps, deps, dips, and dipt — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lapidates turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, ape, ate, die, dip, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, dip, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lapidates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, 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.
Swap a single tile in lapidates 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.
lapidates 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 two senses for lapidates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
lapidates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lapidates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lapidates and stapedial, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lapidates 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 lapidates produce 507 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 145 five-letter words, 159 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.