Hidden inside arep sit aper, pare, pear and 2 others, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EPRA, ERPA or PERA and you get the same 4 letters as AREP: so the words from AREP listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
AREP isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to APER, PARE, PEAR, RAPE and REAP.
aper, pare, pear and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from arep at 6 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in arep produces 5 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aper, pare, pear and 2 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arep. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pa and pe, each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
53 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in arep plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in arep and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aper, pare, pear, rape, and reap, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arep 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 arep produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.