Hidden inside naper sit arpen and paren, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
NAPER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ARPEN and PAREN.
arpen and paren tie for the highest Scrabble score from naper at 7 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in naper. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arpen and paren, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in naper produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn and near. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including aper, nape and neap.
Unscrambling naper turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ear. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
23 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in naper plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in naper 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arpen and paren, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from naper 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 naper produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.