Hidden inside repaired sit rapiered and repaired, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rapiered and repaired tie for the highest Scrabble score from repaired at 11 points. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in repaired: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repaired 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 rapiered and repaired, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repaired produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with readier. For points, the strongest plays are parried and rapider — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repaired turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearer, diaper, and repair. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including diaper, draper and paired.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repaired. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, drier, and pride. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including pride, drape and padre.
Rearranging the letters in repaired produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear and deep. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including deep, drip and paid.
Unscrambling repaired turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air and ape. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dip, pad and dap.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repaired. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and id. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in repaired plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repaired 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.
repaired 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
repaired is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repaired unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rapiered and repaired, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repaired 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 repaired produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.