Hidden inside reopen sit opener, pereon, and reopen, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
opener, pereon, and reopen tie for the highest Scrabble score from reopen at 8 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in reopen: two come from rearranging its letters, and reopen itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opener. For points, the strongest plays are opener, pereon, and reopen — 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 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reopen. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are preen and prone, 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 reopen produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nope, open, porn, and rope. For points, the strongest plays are neep, nope, open, peen, peer, peon, pere, pone, pore, porn, pree, repo, and rope — 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 reopen turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, one, pee, pen, per, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are ope, pee, pen, per, pro, and rep — 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 reopen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in reopen 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.
reopen 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 one sense for reopen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
reopen is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reopen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are opener, pereon, and reopen, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reopen 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 reopen produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.