Hidden inside sample sit maples and sample, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maples and sample tie for the highest Scrabble score from sample at 10 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in sample: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sample itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: maples and sample, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sample. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lamps, leaps, males, maple, and meals. For points, the strongest plays are ample, lamps, maple, palms, plasm, and psalm — 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 sample produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, lame, lamp, laps, leap, male, and maps. For points, the strongest plays are amps, lamp, maps, palm, pams, samp, and spam — 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 sample turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, lap, map, pal, pea, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sample. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, 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 sample 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.
sample 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 four senses for sample. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
sample is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sample unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are maples and sample, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sample 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 sample produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.