Hidden inside scapes sit scapes and spaces, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
scapes and spaces tie for the highest Scrabble score from scapes at 10 points. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in scapes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and scapes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spaces. For points, the strongest plays are scapes and spaces — 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scapes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cases, and space. For points, the strongest plays are capes, paces, scape, space, and specs — 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 scapes produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cape, caps, case, pass, peas, and seas. 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 scapes turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass, 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 scapes. 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 scapes 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.
scapes 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 scapes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
scapes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scapes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are scapes and spaces, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scapes 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 scapes produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.