Hidden inside napier sit panier and rapine, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
NAPIER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PANIER and RAPINE.
panier and rapine tie for the highest Scrabble score from napier at 8 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling napier turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are panier and rapine, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in napier. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arpen, paren, repin, and ripen, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in napier produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near and pain. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including pain, pair and aper.
Unscrambling napier turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in napier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
17 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in napier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in napier 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 panier and rapine, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from napier 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 napier produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.