Hidden inside templates sit palmettes and templates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 351 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
palmettes and templates tie for the highest Scrabble score from templates at 13 points. The top 10 of 351 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in templates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and templates 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 palmettes and templates, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in templates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are palmette, template, and templets, 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 templates produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with temples. For points, the strongest plays are amplest, empales, metepas, pelmets, tempest, temples, and templet — each 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 templates turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, estate, lamest, latest, lattes, maples, and metals. For points, the strongest plays are empale, maples, metepa, pelmet, sample, semple, temple, and tempts — 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 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in templates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lamps, latte, leaps, leapt, lease, least, and males. For points, the strongest plays are ample, lamps, maple, palms, plasm, psalm, stamp, tamps, temps, 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 templates produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, lame, lamp, laps, last, late, and leap. For points, the strongest plays are amps, lamp, maps, palm, pams, samp, spam, 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 templates turns up 61 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in templates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in templates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in templates 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.
templates 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 templates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
templates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing templates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are palmettes and templates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from templates 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 templates produce 351 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.