Hidden inside rapes sit apers, apres, asper and 9 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apers, apres, asper and 0 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from rapes at 7 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 12 five-letter words hiding in rapes: eleven come from rearranging its letters, and rapes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spare. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including spare, apers and apres.
Rearranging the letters in rapes produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears and eras. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including apes, peas and raps.
Unscrambling rapes turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ear. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and per.
75 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in rapes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rapes 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.
rapes 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for rapes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
rapes is one of twelve five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rapes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apers, apres, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, rapes, reaps, spare, and spear, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rapes 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 rapes produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 12 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.