Hidden inside repayment sit pentamery and repayment, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 301 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pentamery and repayment tie for the highest Scrabble score from repayment at 16 points. The top 10 of 301 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in repayment: one comes from rearranging its letters, and repayment 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 pentamery and repayment, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repayment. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is empyrean, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in repayment produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: payment, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling repayment turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meaner, neater, parent, and repeat. For points, the strongest plays are empery, trampy, and tympan — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repayment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, empty, enemy, enter, entry, meant, and meter. For points, the strongest play is empty — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in repayment produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, army, earn, many, mate, mean, and meat. For points, the strongest plays are army, many, myna, paty, pray, prey, pyre, and type — 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 repayment turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any, ape, are, arm, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are may, pay, pry, pya, pye, yam, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in repayment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, ay, me, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in repayment plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in repayment 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.
repayment 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for repayment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
repayment is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing repayment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pentamery and repayment, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from repayment 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 repayment produce 301 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.