asperity needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 402 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asperity is the highest-scoring word from asperity, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 402 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in asperity — and it is asperity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in asperity produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parties and pirates. For points, the strongest plays are pyrites and stripey — 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 asperity turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pirate, praise, priest, and stripe. For points, the strongest plays are parity, pastry, payers, pyrite, repays, stripy, and typier — 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 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asperity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, parts, party, prays, raise, rates, and spare. For points, the strongest plays are apery, party, pasty, patsy, payer, peaty, pesty, piety, prays, preys, pyres, raspy, repay, spiry, spray, tipsy, types, and yipes — 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 asperity produces 130 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, arts, pair, part, past, and pays. For points, the strongest plays are paty, pays, pity, pray, prey, pyas, pyes, pyre, spay, spry, espy, type, yaps, yeps, yipe, and yips — 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 asperity turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, art, ate, aye, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are pay, pry, pya, pye, spy, yap, yep, and yip — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in asperity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, ay, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — 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 asperity 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.
asperity 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in asperity carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for asperity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
asperity is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing asperity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is asperity, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from asperity 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 asperity produce 402 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 130 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.