Hidden inside arepa sit arepa and parae, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arepa and parae tie for the highest Scrabble score from arepa at 7 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in arepa: one comes from rearranging its letters, and arepa itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arepa and parae, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in arepa produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area. For points, the strongest plays are aper, para, pare, pear, rape, and reap — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arepa turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, pea, per, and rap. For points, the strongest plays are ape, par, pea, per, rap, and rep — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arepa. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in arepa and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
arepa is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
arepa is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arepa unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arepa and parae, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arepa 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 arepa produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.