Hidden inside dripes sit prides, prised, redips and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DRIPES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PRIDES, PRISED, REDIPS, SPIDER and SPIRED.
prides, prised, redips and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from dripes at 9 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling dripes turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prides and spider. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including prides, spider and prised.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dripes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dries, drips and pride. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including drips, pride and spied.
Rearranging the letters in dripes produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dips and drip. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including dips, drip and deps.
Unscrambling dripes turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dripes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
20 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in dripes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dripes 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are prides, prised, redips, spider, and spired, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dripes 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 dripes produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.