Hidden inside repatched sit chaptered and repatched, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 381 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chaptered and repatched tie for the highest Scrabble score from repatched at 17 points. The top 10 of 381 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in repatched: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repatched itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chaptered and repatched, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repatched. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is preached, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in repatched produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catered, chapter and cheaper. For points, the strongest plays are parched, patched, peached, and perched — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repatched turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, create, heated, and repeat. For points, the strongest play is peched — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 94 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repatched. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, cared and cater. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including cheap, patch and peach.
Rearranging the letters in repatched produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, card and care. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling repatched turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape and are. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including hap, hep and pah.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repatched. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and at. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in repatched and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
repatched 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.
repatched is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repatched unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chaptered and repatched, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repatched 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 repatched produce 381 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 94 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.