Hidden inside sellotapes sit sellotapes and soleplates, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 501 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sellotapes and soleplates tie for the highest Scrabble score from sellotapes at 12 points. The top 10 of 501 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in sellotapes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sellotapes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sellotapes and soleplates, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sellotapes turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are plateless, pleatless, sellotape, and soleplate, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sellotapes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apostles, peltless, plotless and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sellotapes produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with topless. For points, 18 words tie at 9 points, including topless, apostle and elapses.
Unscrambling sellotapes turns up 81 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, leases and plates. For points, 52 words tie at 8 points, including asleep, plates and please.
There are 145 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sellotapes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sales, salts and seals. For points, 75 words tie at 7 points, including slaps, sleep and slept.
Rearranging the letters in sellotapes produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, apes and laps. For points, 65 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling sellotapes turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ape and ass. For points, 27 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and pal.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sellotapes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
sellotapes is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record two senses for sellotapes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
sellotapes is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sellotapes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sellotapes and soleplates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sellotapes 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 sellotapes produce 501 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 81 six-letter words, 145 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.