approximately needs no unscrambling at all — the thirteen-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 29 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1045 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
approximately is the highest-scoring word from approximately, worth 29 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1045 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one thirteen-letter word uses the letters in approximately — and it is approximately itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 29 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eleven-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approximately. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is proximately, worth 25 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling approximately turns up 10 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are expiatory and pleiotaxy, each worth 21 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approximately. If a familiar word is all you need, start with material. For points, the strongest play is apoplexy — worth 22 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in approximately produces 82 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exploit, oatmeal, politer, and reality. For points, the strongest plays are apteryx, epitaxy, extropy, and pyrexia — each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling approximately turns up 187 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appeal, appear, laptop, patrol, permit, pimple, and pirate. For points, the strongest plays are expiry and peroxy — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 245 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approximately. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarm, alert, altar, alter, apart, apple, and apply. For points, the strongest plays are prexy, proxy, pyrex, pyxie, epoxy, and xylem — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in approximately produces 289 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, army, atom, lame, lamp, late, and leap. For points, the strongest plays are pixy and poxy — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling approximately turns up 154 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ape, are, arm, art, and ate. For points, the strongest play is pyx — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 43 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in approximately. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, ay, ex, it, me, and my. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
approximately 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 approximately. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 29 points on a Scrabble board:
approximately is the only thirteen-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing approximately unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is approximately, worth 29 points in Scrabble, and no other word from approximately 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 approximately produce 1045 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 thirteen-letter word, 2 eleven-letter words, 10 nine-letter words, 32 eight-letter words, 82 seven-letter words, 187 six-letter words, 245 five-letter words, 289 four-letter words, 154 three-letter words and 43 two-letter words.