Unscramble SPAES and you have 33 words, SPAES itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 7 points: APSES, PASES and PASSE. The best shorter words score 6: 10 of them, PASS, PEAS and SPAS included. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from SPAES by length: 4 with 5 letters, 11 with 4, 12 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Keep every letter of SPAES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with SP · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
What SPAES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SPAES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPAES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 33) | 31 | 33 | 30 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
2 of the 33 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: EAS and EA. 1 of the 33 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: SEPS.
These 12 words take every letter of SPAES plus a single extra one.