Hidden inside apheresis sit apheresis and pharisees, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 383 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apheresis and pharisees tie for the highest Scrabble score from apheresis at 14 points. The top 10 of 383 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in apheresis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and apheresis 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 apheresis and pharisees, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apheresis. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parishes, perishes, pharisee, pheresis, reshapes, and sharpies, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in apheresis produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phrases and praises. For points, the strongest plays are apheses, aphesis, harpies, heapers, phasers, phrases, pishers, raspish, reshape, reships, seraphs, shapers, sharpie, sherpas, spahees, and spheres — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling apheresis turns up 75 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easier, erases, herpes, phases, phrase, praise, and raises. For points, the strongest plays are aspish, heaper, herpes, parish, pashes, perish, phaser, phases, phasis, phrase, pisher, pishes, raphes, raphis, reship, seraph, shaper, shapes, sharps, sherpa, spahee, spahis, and sphere — 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 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apheresis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, eases, erase, hairs, hears, hires, and pairs. For points, the strongest plays are aphis, apish, ephas, harps, hasps, heaps, phase, raphe, shape, sharp, sheep, ships, and spahi — 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 apheresis produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, ears, ease, eras, hair, and hear. For points, the strongest plays are epha, haps, harp, hasp, heap, heps, hips, pash, pehs, phis, pish, and ship — 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 apheresis turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, ash, ass, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, hip, pah, peh, and phi — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apheresis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, hi, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in apheresis plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in apheresis 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.
apheresis 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in apheresis carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for apheresis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
apheresis is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apheresis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apheresis and pharisees, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from apheresis 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 apheresis produce 383 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 75 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.