Hidden inside raspier sit aspirer, parries, praiser and 3 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aspirer, parries, praiser and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from raspier at 9 points. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 seven-letter words hiding in raspier: five come from rearranging its letters, and raspier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repairs. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including repairs, aspirer and parries.
Unscrambling raspier turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with praise, repair, and sparer. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including praise, repair and sparer.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raspier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, raise, and spare. For points, 29 words tie at 7 points, including pairs, spare and apers.
Rearranging the letters in raspier produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes and ears. For points, 24 words tie at 6 points, including apes, pair and peas.
Unscrambling raspier turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and per.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raspier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
13 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in raspier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in raspier and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
raspier 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.
raspier is one of six seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raspier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aspirer, parries, praiser, rapiers, raspier, and repairs, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from raspier 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 raspier produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.