Hidden inside staples sit pastels, staples, and tapless, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 211 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pastels, staples, and tapless tie for the highest Scrabble score from staples at 9 points. The top 10 of 211 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in staples: two come from rearranging its letters, and staples itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pastels, 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 staples turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plates and steals. For points, the strongest plays are lapses, palest, palets, passel, pastel, pastes, petals, plates, pleats, saleps, sepals, septal, spales, spates, spelts, splats, stapes, staple, and tepals — 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 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasts, leaps, leapt, least, pasts, plate, and sales. For points, the strongest plays are apses, lapse, leaps, leapt, lepta, pales, palet, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pates, peals, peats, pelts, pests, petal, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, salep, salps, sepal, septa, septs, slaps, slept, spaes, spale, spate, spats, spelt, splat, steps, tapes, tepal, and tepas — 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 staples produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, east, eats, laps, last, late, and leap. For points, the strongest plays are alps, apes, apse, asps, laps, leap, lept, pale, pals, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, peal, peas, peat, pelt, pest, pets, plat, plea, psst, salp, saps, seps, sept, slap, spae, spas, spat, step, tape, taps, and tepa — 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 staples turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass, ate, eat, lap, let, and pal. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, asp, lap, pal, pas, pat, pea, pes, pet, pst, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staples. 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 staples and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
staples 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 seven senses for staples. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
staples is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing staples unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pastels, staples, and tapless, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from staples 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 staples produce 211 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.