Hidden inside space sit capes, paces, scape and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EASCP, PSCEA or SEPCA and you get the same 5 letters as SPACE: so the words from SPACE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
capes, paces, scape and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from space at 9 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in space: three come from rearranging its letters, and space itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes and space. For points, the strongest plays are capes, paces, scape, and space — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in space produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cape and caps. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including cape, caps and ceps.
Unscrambling space turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, cap, pea, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
26 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in space plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in space and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
space 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 ten senses for space. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
space is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing space unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are capes, paces, scape, and space, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from space 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 space produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.