Hidden inside maple sit ample and maple, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ample and maple tie for the highest Scrabble score from maple at 9 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in maple: one comes from rearranging its letters, and maple itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maple. For points, the strongest plays are ample and maple — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in maple produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lame, lamp and leap. For points, the strongest plays are lamp and palm — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling maple turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, lap and map. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in maple 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.
maple 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for maple. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
maple is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maple unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ample and maple, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maple 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 maple produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.