Hidden inside relapses sit pleasers, presales, and relapses, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 268 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pleasers, presales, and relapses tie for the highest Scrabble score from relapses at 10 points. The top 10 of 268 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in relapses: two come from rearranging its letters, and relapses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pleasers, presales, and relapses, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in relapses produces 17 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asperse, elapses, lapsers and 9 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling relapses turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, erases and lasers. For points, 32 words tie at 8 points, including asleep, please and sleeps.
There are 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relapses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, erase and laser. For points, 49 words tie at 7 points, including leaps, peels and press.
Rearranging the letters in relapses produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears and ease. For points, 37 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling relapses turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ass. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and pal.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relapses. 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.
8 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in relapses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in relapses and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
relapses 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 relapses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
relapses is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relapses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pleasers, presales, and relapses, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relapses 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 relapses produce 268 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.