Unscramble APES and you have 21 words, APES itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. It has 4 anagrams, each with the same 6 points: APSE, PASE, PEAS and SPAE. 4 letters: 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from APES by length: 5 with 4 letters, 10 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Keep every letter of APES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with AP · ending in ES · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to APES:
What APES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept APES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| APES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 21) | 19 | 21 | 19 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 2 of them: EAS and EA.
With one more tile, the letters of APES spell the words below.