180 words come out when you unscramble TRAPES, starting with TRAPES itself: 8 in Scrabble, 9 in Words With Friends. It has 8 anagrams at 8 points each, among them PASTER, PATERS and PEARST. The best shorter words score 7: 40 of them, PARTS, STRAP and SPARE included. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from TRAPES by length: 9 with 6 letters, 53 with 5, 60 with 4, 44 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Among 53 5-letter words in TRAPES, the top score is 7, reached by 40. RATES, PARTS and STRAP are the familiar ones.
36 of 60 4-letter words from TRAPES tie at 6 points; none scores more. PART, RATE and EAST will look familiar.
Among 44 3-letter words you get when you unscramble TRAPES, the top score is 5, reached by 17. ARE, SET and ART are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of TRAPES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with TR · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
What TRAPES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. TRAPES is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAPES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 180) | 152 | 180 | 145 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
28 of the 180 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PEARST, PETARS, TRAPSE, APERT, PERST, PERTS, PETAR, SPAER, SPART, SPEAT, TRAPE, APTS and 16 more. 7 of the 180 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PST, RESAT, TASER, ATS, EST, TES and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of TRAPES spell the words below.