Hidden inside staplers sit persalts, plasters, psalters and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 392 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
persalts, plasters, psalters and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from staplers at 10 points. The top 10 of 392 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in staplers: three come from rearranging its letters, and staplers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are persalts, plasters, psalters, and staplers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in staplers produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sparest. For points, the strongest plays are lapsers, palters, pastels, pasters, persalt, plaster, platers, psalter, repasts, sparest, stapler, staples, and tapless — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling staplers turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, lasers, plates, spares, stares, and steals. For points, the strongest plays are aspers, lapser, lapses, palest, palets, palter, parles, parses, passel, passer, pastel, paster, pastes, paters, pearls, petals, plater, plates, pleats, prases, prates, prests, repass, repast, saleps, sepals, septal, spales, spares, sparse, spates, spears, spelts, splats, sprats, stapes, staple, straps, streps, tapers, tepals, and trapes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 121 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staplers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, laser, lasts, later, leaps, and leapt. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apses, apter, asper, lapse, larps, leaps, leapt, lepta, paler, pales, palet, pares, parle, parse, parts, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pater, pates, peals, pearl, pears, peart, peats, pelts, pests, petal, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, prase, prate, prats, presa, press, prest, rapes, rasps, reaps, salep, salps, sepal, septa, septs, slaps, slept, spaes, spale, spare, spars, spate, spats, spear, spelt, splat, sprat, steps, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tarps, tepal, tepas, and traps — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in staplers produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, laps, last, late, leap, and less. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, asps, laps, larp, leap, lept, pale, pals, pare, pars, part, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, peal, pear, peas, peat, pelt, pert, pest, pets, plat, plea, prat, psst, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, salp, saps, seps, sept, slap, spae, spar, spas, spat, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, and trap — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling staplers turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, asp, lap, pal, par, pas, pat, pea, per, pes, pet, pst, rap, rep, sap, spa, and tap — each worth 5 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 staplers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. 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 staplers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
staplers 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 staplers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
staplers is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing staplers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are persalts, plasters, psalters, and staplers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from staplers 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 staplers produce 392 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 121 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.