Hidden inside repainting sit pertaining and repainting, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 412 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pertaining and repainting tie for the highest Scrabble score from repainting at 13 points. The top 10 of 412 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in repainting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repainting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pertaining and repainting, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repainting turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is parenting, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repainting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with painting, pregnant, printing, and training. For points, the strongest plays are painting, patining, pirating, pregnant, printing, repining, retaping, ripening, and tapering — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in repainting produces 42 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, raining, renting, and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are paining, pairing, panting, parting, peining, prating, reaping, and trepang — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repainting turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing, eating, intern, parent, pirate, rating, and taping. For points, the strongest plays are pangen, parget, paring, penang, pieing, pinang, pinger, pining, raping, riping, and taping — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repainting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, genii, giant, grant, grape, and great. For points, the strongest plays are aping, gaper, genip, grape, gripe, gript, pager, parge, piing, and prang — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in repainting produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gate, grip, near, neat, and nine. For points, the strongest plays are gape, grip, page, pang, peag, ping, and prig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repainting turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, ape, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repainting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in repainting plus one additional letter.
repainting 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.
repainting is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repainting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pertaining and repainting, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repainting 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 repainting produce 412 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 42 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.