Hidden inside grippes sit gippers and grippes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 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.
gippers and grippes tie for the highest Scrabble score from grippes at 12 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in grippes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grippes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gippers and grippes, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grippes turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gipper and grippe, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grippes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grips and pipes. For points, the strongest plays are perps, piper, pipes, preps, and repps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grippes produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grip, pies, pigs, pipe, reps, rigs, and rips. For points, the strongest plays are peps, perp, pipe, pips, prep, and repp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grippes turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pie, pig, rep, rig, rip, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are pep and pip — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grippes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in grippes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in grippes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
grippes 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 3-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 grippes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
grippes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grippes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gippers and grippes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grippes 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 grippes produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.