Hidden inside draper sit draper and parred, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
draper and parred tie for the highest Scrabble score from draper at 9 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in draper: one comes from rearranging its letters, and draper itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are draper and parred, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in draper. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drape, padre, pared, and raped, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in draper produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, rare, and read. For points, the strongest plays are aped and pard — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling draper turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, pad, pea, and per. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in draper. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays 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 draper and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
draper is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for draper. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
draper is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing draper unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are draper and parred, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from draper 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 draper produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.