Hidden inside repartee sit repartee, repeater, and rerepeat, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
repartee, repeater, and rerepeat tie for the highest Scrabble score from repartee at 10 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in repartee: two come from rearranging its letters, and repartee 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 repartee, repeater, and rerepeat, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repartee produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pearter and taperer, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repartee turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeat. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including repeat, epater and parter.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repartee. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apter, etape, parer and 8 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repartee produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with part, rare and rate. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including part, tape and trap.
Unscrambling repartee turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and pee.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repartee. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in repartee plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repartee 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.
repartee 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for repartee. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
repartee is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repartee unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are repartee, repeater, and rerepeat, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repartee 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 repartee produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.