Hidden inside repack sit packer and repack, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
packer and repack tie for the highest Scrabble score from repack at 14 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in repack: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repack 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 packer and repack, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repack. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crake and creak, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repack produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cake, cape and care. For points, the strongest plays are pack and peck — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repack turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and cap. For points, the strongest plays are ack, kep, and pak — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repack. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ka, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in repack plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repack 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.
repack 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.
repack is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repack unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are packer and repack, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repack 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 repack produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.