places needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
places is the highest-scoring word from places, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in places — and it is places itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in places. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, claps, leaps, place, scale, and space. For points, the strongest plays are capes, claps, clasp, paces, place, scalp, scape, and space — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in places produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cape, caps, case, clap, laps, and leap. For points, the strongest plays are cape, caps, ceps, clap, pace, pacs, pecs, and spec — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling places turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, cap, lap, pal, pea, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, and pec — each worth 7 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 places. 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.
27 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in places plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in places 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.
places 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 thirty-two senses for places. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
places is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing places unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is places, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from places 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 places produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 19 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.