Hidden inside lepers sit lepers and repels, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lepers and repels tie for the highest Scrabble score from lepers at 8 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in lepers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lepers 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 lepers and repels, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lepers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with peels and sleep. For points, the strongest plays are leper, peels, peers, peles, peres, perse, prees, prese, repel, sleep, speel, speer, and spree — 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 lepers produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, peel, pees, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are peel, peer, pees, pele, pere, pree, reps, and seep — 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 lepers turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, rep, and see. For points, the strongest plays are pee, per, pes, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lepers. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, 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 lepers 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.
lepers 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for lepers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lepers is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lepers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lepers and repels, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lepers 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 lepers produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.