Hidden inside tampers sit restamp, stamper, and tampers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble REMPAST, MEPRAST or PSTRAME and you get the same 7 letters as TAMPERS: so the words from TAMPERS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
restamp, stamper, and tampers tie for the highest Scrabble score from tampers at 11 points. The top 10 of 252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in tampers: two come from rearranging its letters, and tampers 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 restamp, stamper, and tampers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tampers turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with master. For points, the strongest plays are remaps, tamper, and tramps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tampers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mates, meats and parts. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including ramps, sperm and stamp.
Rearranging the letters in tampers produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arms and arts. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including maps, ramp and temp.
Unscrambling tampers turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and arm. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tampers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
10 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tampers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tampers 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.
tampers 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 three senses for tampers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tampers is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tampers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are restamp, stamper, and tampers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tampers 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 tampers produce 252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.