Hidden inside taphouses sit phaseouts and taphouses, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 437 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
phaseouts and taphouses tie for the highest Scrabble score from taphouses at 14 points. The top 10 of 437 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in taphouses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and taphouses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are phaseouts and taphouses, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in taphouses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pathoses, phaseout, potashes, spathose, taphouse, and teashops, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in taphouses produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are poshest, spathes, teashop, and upshots, 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 taphouses turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with houses, pauses, phases, pushes, setups, shapes, and shouts. For points, the strongest plays are ouphes, pashes, pathos, phases, potash, pushes, shapes, shtups, spathe, staphs, thesps, tophes, tophus, and upshot — 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 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in taphouses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, autos, hates, heats, hopes, hoses, and hosts. For points, the strongest plays are ephas, hasps, heaps, hopes, opahs, ouphe, ouphs, paths, phase, pheos, phots, phuts, shape, shops, shtup, sophs, staph, thesp, tophe, and tophs — 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 taphouses produces 142 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, auto, oath, pass, past, path, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are opah, ouph, pash, path, pehs, phat, pheo, phos, phot, phut, posh, push, shop, soph, epha, haps, hasp, heap, heps, hope, hops, and toph — 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 taphouses turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ash, ass, ate, eat, has, and hat. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, hop, hup, pah, peh, pho, pht, and poh — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in taphouses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and ho. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, oh, sh, and uh — each worth 5 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 taphouses and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
taphouses 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 one sense for taphouses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
taphouses is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing taphouses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are phaseouts and taphouses, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from taphouses 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 taphouses produce 437 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 142 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.