Hidden inside scape sit capes, paces, scape and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
capes, paces, scape and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from scape at 9 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in scape: three come from rearranging its letters, and scape itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes and space. For points, the strongest plays are capes, paces, 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 scape produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cape, caps, case, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are cape, caps, ceps, 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 scape turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, cap, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scape. 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.
Swap a single tile in scape and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
scape 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 two senses for scape. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
scape is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scape unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are capes, paces, scape, and space, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scape 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 scape produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.