Hidden inside relapse sit leapers, pleaser, presale and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leapers, pleaser, presale and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from relapse at 9 points. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in relapse: four come from rearranging its letters, and relapse 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 leapers, pleaser, presale, relapse, and repeals, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling relapse turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep and please. For points, the strongest plays are asleep, elapse, lapser, leaper, lepers, parles, pearls, please, repeal, repels, sapele, and serape — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relapse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, laser, leaps, lease, peels, sleep, and spare. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, asper, lapse, larps, leaps, leper, paler, pales, pares, parle, parse, peals, pearl, pears, pease, peels, peers, peles, perea, peres, perse, pleas, prase, prees, presa, prese, rapes, reaps, repel, salep, sepal, sleep, spale, spare, spear, speel, speer, and spree — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in relapse produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears, ease, else, eras, laps, and leap. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, laps, larp, leap, pale, pals, pare, pars, pase, peal, pear, peas, peel, peer, pees, pele, pere, plea, pree, rape, raps, rasp, reap, reps, salp, seep, slap, spae, and spar — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling relapse turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, lap, pal, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, asp, lap, pal, par, pas, pea, pee, per, pes, rap, rep, sap, and spa — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relapse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
23 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in relapse plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in relapse 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.
relapse 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 three senses for relapse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
relapse is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relapse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are leapers, pleaser, presale, relapse, and repeals, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relapse 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 relapse produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.