Hidden inside reapers sit reapers and spearer, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reapers and spearer tie for the highest Scrabble score from reapers at 9 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in reapers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reapers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reapers and spearer, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reapers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase and spare. For points, 24 words tie at 7 points, including spare, apers and apres.
Rearranging the letters in reapers produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears and ease. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including apes, peas and pees.
Unscrambling reapers turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ear. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and pee.
15 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in reapers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reapers 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.
reapers 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 three senses for reapers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
reapers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reapers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reapers and spearer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reapers 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 reapers produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.