Hidden inside repels sit lepers and repels, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lepers and repels tie for the highest Scrabble score from repels at 8 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in repels: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repels itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lepers and repels, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with peels and sleep. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including peels, sleep and leper.
Rearranging the letters in repels produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, peel, pees, and reps. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including peel, pees and reps.
Unscrambling repels turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, rep, and see. For points, the strongest plays are pee, per, pes, and rep — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
22 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in repels plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repels 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.
repels 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 five senses for repels. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
repels is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repels unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lepers and repels, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repels 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 repels produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.