Hidden inside sampler sit lampers, palmers, and sampler, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 202 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lampers, palmers, and sampler tie for the highest Scrabble score from sampler at 11 points. The top 10 of 202 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in sampler: two come from rearranging its letters, and sampler itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lampers, palmers, and sampler, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sampler turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maples and sample. For points, the strongest plays are ampler, maples, palmer, remaps, and sample — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sampler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lamer, lamps, laser, leaps, males, maple, and meals. For points, the strongest plays are ample, lamps, maple, palms, perms, plasm, prams, psalm, ramps, remap, and sperm — 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 sampler produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arms, ears, eras, lame, lamp, and laps. For points, the strongest plays are amps, lamp, maps, palm, pams, perm, pram, ramp, 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 sampler turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, arm, ear, era, lap, and map. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sampler. 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 sampler and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
sampler 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 sampler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
sampler is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sampler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lampers, palmers, and sampler, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sampler 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 sampler produce 202 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.