Hidden inside topsails sit apostils and topsails, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 273 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apostils and topsails tie for the highest Scrabble score from topsails at 10 points. The top 10 of 273 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in topsails: one comes from rearranging its letters, and topsails 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 apostils and topsails, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in topsails produces 6 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 apostil, pastils, pistols and 3 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling topsails turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pilots, splits, spoils, and spoilt. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including pilots, splits and spoils.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in topsails. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasts, lists and pasts. For points, 40 words tie at 7 points, including pasts, pilot and plots.
Rearranging the letters in topsails produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, laps and last. For points, 50 words tie at 6 points, including laps, lips and pals.
Unscrambling topsails turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, its and lap. For points, 29 words tie at 5 points, including lap, lip and pal.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in topsails. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and is. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in topsails plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in topsails 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.
topsails 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 one sense for topsails. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
topsails is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing topsails unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apostils and topsails, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from topsails 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 topsails produce 273 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.