Hidden inside saprolite sit epilators and saprolite, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 941 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
epilators and saprolite tie for the highest Scrabble score from saprolite at 11 points. The top 10 of 941 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in saprolite: one comes from rearranging its letters, and saprolite 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 epilators and saprolite, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saprolite. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epilator, pelorias, petiolar and 9 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in saprolite produces 64 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolate, parties and patrols. For points, 50 words tie at 9 points, including parties, patrols and pirates.
Unscrambling saprolite turns up 166 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and operas. For points, 103 words tie at 8 points, including operas, patrol and pilots.
There are 282 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saprolite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert and alter. For points, 148 words tie at 7 points, including opera, pairs and parts.
Rearranging the letters in saprolite produces 266 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also and apes. For points, 104 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling saprolite turns up 118 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 41 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and lip.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saprolite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and is. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including op, pa and pe.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in saprolite plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in saprolite 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.
saprolite 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for saprolite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
saprolite is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing saprolite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epilators and saprolite, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from saprolite 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 saprolite produce 941 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 64 seven-letter words, 166 six-letter words, 282 five-letter words, 266 four-letter words, 118 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.