Hidden inside template sit palmette and template, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
palmette and template tie for the highest Scrabble score from template at 12 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in template: one comes from rearranging its letters, and template 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 palmette and template, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in template produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is templet, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling template turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with temple. For points, the strongest plays are empale, metepa, pelmet, and temple — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in template. If a familiar word is all you need, start with latte, leapt, maple, metal, plate, and tempt. For points, the strongest plays are ample, maple, and tempt — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in template produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lame, lamp, late, leap, male, mate, and meal. For points, the strongest plays are lamp, palm, tamp, and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling template turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate, eat, lap, let, map, and met. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in template. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, 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 template 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.
template 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 3-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 template. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
template is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing template unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are palmette and template, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from template 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 template produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.