malapertness needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1517 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
malapertness is the highest-scoring word from malapertness, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1517 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in malapertness — and it is malapertness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in malapertness produces 3 valid ten-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pleasanter. For points, the strongest play is nameplates — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling malapertness turns up 25 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with separates. For points, the strongest plays are ampleness, ensamples, lamperses, malaperts, nameplate, nametapes, paraments, parmesans, and resamples — 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 117 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malapertness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pleasant, presents, salesman, salesmen, and separate. For points, the strongest plays are empalers, empanels, emplanes, ensample, lampases, malapert, mantraps, nametape, parament, parmesan, permeant, prenames, pressman, pressmen, resample, restamps, samplers, spearman, spearmen, stampers, temperas, templars, and tramples — 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 malapertness produces 219 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, easters, eternal, masters, meanest, nearest, and parents. For points, the strongest plays are amperes, amplest, empaler, empales, empanel, emplane, empress, lampers, mantrap, mapless, metepas, napalms, palmate, palmers, pelmets, plasmas, premeal, prename, rampant, restamp, sampans, sampler, samples, stamper, tampans, tampers, tempera, tempers, templar, temples, and trample — 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 malapertness turns up 342 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sperms, stamps, stares, steals, steams, steels, and steers. For points, the strongest plays are sperms, stamps, tampan, tamper, temper, temple, tramps, ampere, ampler, apeman, apemen, empale, lampas, maples, metepa, napalm, palmar, palmer, pelmet, plasma, plasms, praams, preman, premen, psalms, remaps, sampan, sample, semple, and sempre — 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 403 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malapertness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarm, alert, altar, alter, apart, areas, and lamer. For points, the strongest plays are ample, lamps, maple, palms, perms, plasm, praam, prams, psalm, ramps, remap, samps, spams, spasm, sperm, stamp, tamps, temps, and tramp — 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 malapertness produces 277 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants, apes, area, arms, arts, and lame. For points, the strongest plays are amps, lamp, maps, palm, pams, perm, pram, ramp, 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 malapertness turns up 106 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, are, arm, art, ass, and ate. 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malapertness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, 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.
malapertness 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
malapertness is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing malapertness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is malapertness, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from malapertness 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 malapertness produce 1517 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 3 ten-letter words, 25 nine-letter words, 117 eight-letter words, 219 seven-letter words, 342 six-letter words, 403 five-letter words, 277 four-letter words, 106 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.