Hidden inside prepares sit paperers, prepares, and repapers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paperers, prepares, and repapers tie for the highest Scrabble score from prepares at 12 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in prepares: two come from rearranging its letters, and prepares itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prepares. For points, the strongest plays are paperers, prepares, and repapers — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in prepares produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prepare. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including prepare, paperer and rappees.
Unscrambling prepares turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with papers and sparer. For points, the strongest plays are papers, rappee, rapper, and sapper — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prepares. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, paper, and spare. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including paper, peeps and perps.
Rearranging the letters in prepares produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears and ease. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including apps, paps and peep.
Unscrambling prepares turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ear. For points, the strongest plays are app, pap, and pep — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in prepares plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in prepares and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
prepares 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 eight senses for prepares. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
prepares is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prepares unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are paperers, prepares, and repapers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from prepares 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 prepares produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.