Hidden inside repay sit apery, payer, and repay, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apery, payer, and repay tie for the highest Scrabble score from repay at 10 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in repay: two come from rearranging its letters, and repay itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apery, payer, and repay, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in repay produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pray and year. For points, the strongest plays are pray, prey, and pyre — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repay turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, aye, ear, era, pay, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are pay, pry, pya, pye, yap, and yep — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in repay and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
repay 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in repay carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for repay. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
repay is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repay unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apery, payer, and repay, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repay 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 repay produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.