Hidden inside tapestries sit striptease and tapestries, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 703 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
striptease and tapestries tie for the highest Scrabble score from tapestries at 12 points. The top 10 of 703 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in tapestries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tapestries 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 striptease and tapestries, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tapestries 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 pretastes and stairstep, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tapestries. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epitases, parietes, partiest, pastiest, pastries, peartest, peatiest, pestiest, piasters, piastres, pretaste, pretests, pretties, raspiest, respites, spatters, spitters, tapsters, tipsters, traipses, and trapeses, 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 tapestries produces 93 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artists, easiest, easters, estates, parties, pettier, and pirates. For points, the strongest plays are aperies, asperse, aspires, epaters, esprits, pareses, paresis, parises, parties, partite, pasters, pastier, pasties, patsies, patters, patties, peatier, persist, pertest, pesetas, pesters, pestier, petites, petsais, petters, pettier, piaster, piastre, pirates, praises, praties, presets, pretest, priests, rapists, repasts, repeats, respite, retapes, septate, septets, serapes, sitreps, sparest, spatter, spireas, spitter, spriest, sprites, stirpes, stripes, tapises, tapster, tipster, and traipse — 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 tapestries turns up 156 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, easier, easter, erases, estate, pirate, and praise. For points, the strongest plays are aptest, aspers, aspire, epater, espies, esprit, etapes, paries, parses, passee, passer, paster, pastes, pastie, pastis, paters, pattee, patter, pattie, peases, peises, pereia, perses, peseta, pester, peters, petite, petsai, petter, pietas, pirate, pisser, pistes, pittas, praise, prases, prates, pratie, preset, prests, priest, prises, rapist, repass, repast, repeat, retape, ripest, sepias, septet, serape, sitrep, spaits, spares, sparse, spates, spears, speers, speirs, speise, spiers, spirea, spires, spirts, spites, sprats, sprees, sprite, sprits, stapes, steeps, stipes, stirps, straps, streps, stripe, strips, stript, tapers, tapirs, trapes, and tripes — 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 186 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tapestries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seats, sites, spare, spies, spits, stair, and stare. For points, the strongest plays are seeps, sepia, septa, septs, sipes, spaes, spait, spare, spars, spate, spats, spear, speer, speir, spier, spies, spire, spirt, spite, spits, sprat, spree, sprit, steep, steps, stipe, stirp, strap, strep, strip, taper, tapes, tapir, tapis, tarps, tepas, apers, apres, apses, apsis, apter, asper, aspis, atrip, etape, pairs, paise, pares, paris, parse, parts, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pater, pates, pears, peart, pease, peats, peers, peise, perea, peres, peris, perse, pests, peter, petit, petti, piers, pieta, piste, pitas, pitta, prase, prate, prats, prees, presa, prese, press, prest, pries, prise, priss, rapes, rasps, reaps, ripes, traps, trapt, tripe, and trips — 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 tapestries produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, arts, pair, part, pass, and past. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, asps, pair, pare, pars, part, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, peer, pees, pere, peri, pert, pest, pets, pias, pier, pies, piss, pita, pits, prat, pree, psis, psst, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, ripe, rips, saps, seep, seps, sept, sipe, sips, spae, spar, spas, spat, spit, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, tips, trap, and trip — 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 tapestries turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, art, ass, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, par, pas, pat, pea, pee, per, pes, pet, pia, pie, pis, pit, psi, pst, rap, rep, rip, sap, sip, spa, tap, and tip — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tapestries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tapestries plus one additional letter.
tapestries 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 1-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 tapestries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
tapestries is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tapestries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are striptease and tapestries, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tapestries 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 tapestries produce 703 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 33 eight-letter words, 93 seven-letter words, 156 six-letter words, 186 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.