Hidden inside relapsing sit graplines, presignal, relapsing and 1 other, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 733 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
graplines, presignal, relapsing and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from relapsing at 12 points. The top 10 of 733 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 nine-letter words hiding in relapsing: three come from rearranging its letters, and relapsing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are graplines, presignal, relapsing, and spanglier, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relapsing. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elapsing, grapline, graplins and 7 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in relapsing produces 55 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, leaping and plainer. For points, 20 words tie at 10 points, including leaping, sparing and graples.
Unscrambling relapsing turns up 121 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels and angers. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including grapes, spring and gapers.
There are 216 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relapsing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nails, pages and pains. For points, 20 words tie at 8 points, including pages, grape and grips.
Rearranging the letters in relapsing produces 197 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and apes. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including page, pigs and gaps.
Unscrambling relapsing turns up 99 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ape. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relapsing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in relapsing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in relapsing and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
relapsing 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for relapsing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
relapsing is one of four nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relapsing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are graplines, presignal, relapsing, and spanglier, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relapsing 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 relapsing produce 733 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 55 seven-letter words, 121 six-letter words, 216 five-letter words, 197 four-letter words, 99 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.