Unscramble GAPES and you have 43 words, GAPES itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 8 points: PAGES and PEAGS. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from GAPES split into 3 with 5 letters, 15 with 4, 18 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of GAPES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with GA · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
What GAPES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
GAPES works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAPES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 43) | 40 | 43 | 39 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
3 of the 43 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SPAG, EAS and EA. 1 of the 43 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: AGS.
With one more tile, the letters of GAPES spell the words below.