Hidden inside lapses sit lapses, passel, saleps and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lapses, passel, saleps and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from lapses at 8 points. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in lapses: four come from rearranging its letters, and lapses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lapses, passel, saleps, sepals, and spales, 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lapses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaps, sales, seals, and slaps. For points, the strongest plays are apses, lapse, leaps, pales, pases, passe, peals, pleas, salep, salps, sepal, slaps, spaes, and spale — 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 lapses produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, laps, leap, less, pals, pass, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are alps, apes, apse, asps, laps, leap, pale, pals, pase, pass, peal, peas, plea, salp, saps, 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 lapses turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass, lap, pal, pea, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, asp, lap, pal, pas, pea, 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 lapses. 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 lapses and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
lapses 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 nine senses for lapses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lapses is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lapses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lapses, passel, saleps, sepals, and spales, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lapses 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 lapses produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.